Chapter 80: Equipment

Chapter 80: Equipment

Tang Tianxin looked at his lazy profile and once again thought this guy was incredibly strange, impossible to understand.

It was too abnormal. Who acts so lazy after taking first place in the entire army?

Was this his true nature, or was it a genetic flaw inherent to being a Synthetic Human?

This doubt made Tang Tianxin slightly change her mind. She didn’t bring up her initial plan and instead asked, “By the way, which warship are you planning to choose?”

Chen Feng shook his head. “Haven’t decided. I haven’t even looked at the materials yet, can’t make a choice. I’ll check later.”

“How about coming to my Tianxin? I forgot to tell you, the Tianxin, named after me, is one of the top ten frigates in the entire army. Do you know what being top ten means?”

Chen Feng nodded. “I know.”

Tang Tianxin didn’t want to let the cooked duck fly away and continued to introduce it. “The full name of the Tianxin is the Tianxin 008 Battleship Frigate. It is one of the very few battleship-class spacecrafts among all frigate formations in the entire army. Its equipment in all aspects is the most advanced.”

Chen Feng became a little interested but immediately became alert. “So, during battle, does the Tianxin serve as a vanguard at the front or provide support from the rear?”

He had already made up his mind.

If the Tianxin’s position was at the front of the formation, then according to his memories, it would be among the first to blow up, so he definitely couldn’t go.

If it was way at the back, it could survive a few more seconds, which just met his selection criteria. He could also give Tang Tianxin some face.

“I can’t tell you too much about specific military deployments. I can only simply tell you that the Tianxin is responsible for the flank. It is one of the main flagship vessels of the flank fleet.”

“Oh, impressive. I’ll consider it later.”

“Alright, no need to rush with an answer.”

The conversation was almost over, and Tang Tianxin didn’t press further.

After the banquet ended, Ding Hu and Chen Feng walked side by side toward the dormitory area.

Ding Hu said regretfully, “Oh, by the way, your dorm has been changed again, moved to a higher level. We won’t be neighbors anymore.”

Chen Feng asked, “Can I choose not to move?”

“You cannot.”

“You mean I don’t even have the right to choose where I live?”

Ding Hu thought for a moment. “Well, it’s not exactly like that. You demonstrated your ability and potential, so you deserve better treatment. A better living environment can help you focus more on the upcoming training and uncover more of your potential.”

Chen Feng grinned. “To become a better soldier and kill more potential enemies on the battlefield?”

“Yes.”

“That’s really a considerate policy.”

“Of course.”

Chen Feng suddenly asked, “Then what kind of enemy are we actually fighting, Brother Hu? Can you tell me?”

Ding Hu was startled. “According to regulations, I can’t tell you now because you haven’t been equipped with the Azure Dragon Armor yet. But I can only say that time is running out for us. So we must train even harder. As long as we survive this ordeal, humanity can be reborn from the ashes, truly free in the universe, just like written in ‘Baptism of Fire’.”

“Hmm, a great ideal.” Chen Feng smiled and returned to his room.

He didn’t know whether to admire Brother Hu’s noble sentiments or feel sorrow for his meaningless spirit of sacrifice.

There’s no hope, Brother Hu.

We never even saw the real enemy before everyone was done for.

Even if you make the Azure Dragon Armor perform wonders, it’s still just a firework.

The next day, Chen Feng was taken to the equipment department at the Great Snow Mountain Base. His Azure Dragon Armor was already placed inside.

“When your match ended yesterday, the General Equipment Department immediately began customizing this Azure Dragon Armor based on your physical data. It was delivered this morning at seven o’clock. We hope you will like it.”

Professor Ouyang proudly introduced it to Chen Feng.

After speaking, he pulled open the curtain with a swish, revealing the streamlined metal creation inside, about two point eight meters tall.

Chen Feng asked doubtfully, “Aren’t the inner structures supposed to make slight adjustments automatically to fit the user’s body shape?”

Professor Ouyang said proudly, “That’s for the mass-produced models. But mass-produced adaptation is never as good as targeted customization. A good horse deserves a good saddle. An Azure Dragon Armor that perfectly matches your body can better unleash your abilities. On the battlefield, even the slightest mistake could cost you your life.”

Chen Feng looked around, examining this metal beast, and was very satisfied.

“Looks like winning the All-Army Competition wasn’t for nothing.”

“Yes, custom armor is a champion’s privilege. Alas, it’s a pity the customization is only for the support parts. The maximum acceleration performance of this armor is still only 20G.”

Chen Feng frowned and asked, “Why? Can’t the limit be removed?”

“You can withstand greater acceleration, but the machine’s materials cannot. Based on this limit, forcibly increasing the acceleration capability of a mass-produced model even a tiny bit would put enormous stress on the material’s structural integrity, greatly increasing the failure rate. You wouldn’t want to get stranded in space, would you?”

Chen Feng didn’t ask the common-sense-lacking question of why not strengthen the materials.

By this point, if stronger materials weren’t being used, there was only one reason: they simply didn’t exist. This was already the pinnacle of current technological achievement.

Moreover, mechanical structures are interconnected. To slightly raise the upper limit, the necessary improvements would involve every aspect of the entire armor.

Professor Ouyang handed over a box.

“Take this. This is your Serum. One box at a time, ten syringes per box. Ordinary Azure Dragon Armor operators only get one box per month, but you get three. However, you definitely won’t use it all up. Keep it safe for now.”

Chen Feng opened it and looked. Inside were ten neatly arranged syringes filled with a pale yellow liquid.

The quantity was quite substantial; each syringe contained 50ml of Serum.

The sound of thumping footsteps grew louder, approaching from a distance. It was Ding Hu, wearing his Azure Dragon Armor and running over, kicking up dust.

Ding Hu said, “Chen Feng, get into your machine first. I won’t repeat the other basics. I’ll explain the actual weapon configurations on the unit.”

Chen Feng nodded. “Okay.”

The weapon configuration of the Azure Dragon Armor wasn’t complicated. Chen Feng learned quickly, taking less than twenty minutes.

The weapons and equipment were the shield, the blade, the gun, and some high-explosive bombs.

The shield was an Alloy Shield, made of the same material as the Azure Dragon Armor’s own armor but thicker and with better structural properties.

The blade was an electromagnetic oscillation kinetic blade. It used high-frequency electromagnetic oscillation for cutting and could slice through alloys over a meter thick like tofu. Even the Azure Dragon Armor’s own armor couldn’t withstand it.

This weapon was never designed with combat between Azure Dragon Armors in mind.

Because the hypothetical enemy the Azure Dragon Armor needed to face was never human, so naturally, the more powerful, the better.

The gun was a high-energy compressed ion beam rifle.

The ion beam rifle might seem similar to the laser guns in sci-fi movies that go ‘Biu’ and shoot out a big stream of light, but their principles were fundamentally different.

The beam rifle had no bullets. What it fired was an ionized energy state with extremely high compressed energy levels. Upon colliding with a solid or liquid, it would cause a massive explosion due to chain collisions.

Each shot from the beam rifle triggered an explosion roughly equivalent to 30 kilograms of TNT.

The ion beam traveled at a speed close to, but not reaching, the Speed of Light.

Also, the gun’s recoil was significant. Even the most elite soldiers had to be wearing the Azure Dragon Armor to withstand it. Otherwise, one shot would send the person flying and likely dislocate their shoulder.

As for the high-explosive bombs, they were something Chen Feng couldn’t understand at all just by reading the manual. He had no idea of the principle, only knew that their small-scale explosive energy state was even higher than nuclear fusion.

Luckily, he didn’t need to learn how to produce them, just how to use them.

The power of the high-explosive bombs was astonishing. Each piece of bomb was only the size of a fingernail, but the explosion it caused could easily level a skyscraper.

This was the most terrifying explosive technology humanity had mastered to date. If the bomb was made large enough, blowing up the entire Earth wasn’t impossible.

The conventional weapons equipped on the Azure Dragon Armor were all very powerful and quite shocking.

“Alright, now remember the placement of our conventional weapons. The blade is on the back. The gun is under the armor on the right arm. The bombs are in the compartments on the inner thighs.”

Ding Hu instructed.

Chen Feng raised his hand to ask a question. “Um, Brother Hu, placing the bombs there is a bit unsettling, isn’t it? Can we change the location?”

“No. According to technical statistics, that’s the position where the human body’s self-protection instinct is strongest and least likely to suffer external impact. So, it’s the safest place for them.”

Ding Hu’s explanation was very firm, leaving no room for argument.