Chapter 259

Lin Xian and Kiki followed Shi Diyuan to the outside of the temporary camp tent of the Phoenix Society. Many electronic devices were placed here. A large number of pipelines were connected from the tent to these devices, and then more pipelines of different thicknesses were differentiated to connect to the giant No. 0 mecha on the edge of the cliff in the distance.

"Looks like, still checking the system?" Lin Xian walked closer and said.

Shi Diyuan said: "I estimate that most functions can still operate. For example, the mecha's power core is intact. You also saw this guy start just now. The purpose is to deter those monster tides."

"This trick won't work all the time." Kiki said bluntly: "The aggressiveness of strange entities is very strong. At night, I estimate it won't work."

"Sigh..."

Shi Diyuan sighed at this time: "Yes, we almost lost the defense last night. The No. 0 mecha's nuclear-powered turbine engine burned for a night. Fortunately, the terrain on the edge of the canyon we are guarding is still favorable, otherwise, it would be gone. According to the current situation, our ammunition reserves estimate that we can't hold on until tonight."

He said and looked at Lin Xian: "Brother Lin, we are really destined, meeting at the critical moment of life and death every time."

Lin Xian said lightly: "For us survivors, every day is a critical moment of life and death. In fact, it's all the same, but it's true that we are destined."

"Hahahaha." Shi Diyuan laughed heroically. He looked at Lin Xian meaningfully: "But don't say, as soon as I see you, I have an inexplicable feeling, that is, we won't die tonight."

Lin Xian was ashamed. This old brother put too much pressure on him, making him seem like a savior.

In fact, as soon as he entered here, he was already having a headache. He clearly wanted to rely on his and Kiki's mobility to do reconnaissance, but ended up breaking into a wolf's den again.

But if you have to say it, with Kiki's esper ability, taking him to escape from the air might have a high success rate. That flight esper of the Joker convoy could break through the encirclement, maybe they could too.

But this thought can only be suppressed in the bottom of his heart for the time being. Shi Diyuan and these people from the Phoenix Society are all here, it's impossible to just leave. And he is also very interested in this Emperor Project of the Phoenix Society. At this time, he is also thinking about how to break out.

"Captain Shi!"

At this time, a man wearing an Interstellar Army sergeant major uniform and power armor ran over from a distance, with several soldiers covered in wind and snow behind him.

"The monster tide came again just now? It's been less than three hours!"

"Ouch, Company Commander Sun!" Shi Diyuan said immediately when he saw the visitor: "You guys came back so fast. It's okay, we have already blocked this wave, and there were no casualties for the time being."

Sun Kai was the company commander of the armed guards of this Emperor Project group. Two hours ago, he took a few soldiers down to the ice valley to scout for other ways out. But what he didn't expect was that the frequency of the Snow Demon tide's attack shortened again without warning. A huge avalanche struck. He took his men to hide in an ice cave to avoid the avalanche before rushing back at this time.

Sun Kai scanned the defensive line that was still intact. At this time, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to Shi Diyuan: "Captain Shi, thanks to you guys, this should have been us..."

"Hey, why be polite? In this period, everyone is a comrade-in-arms. Your armed company sacrificed so much, aren't we here to support you?"

"Eh, these two are..." Sun Kai saw two new faces and immediately perked up: "Are you reinforcements from Xilan City?"

"We are not from Xilan City." Lin Xian said directly.

Shi Diyuan cleared his throat and said to cover up the embarrassment: "These two are my old friends, and they are also here to support."

Sun Kai understood immediately upon hearing this, a few disappointments flashed in his eyes, and he looked at Lin Xian and Kiki somewhat helplessly: "I see, thank you very much for risking danger to support us, but the current situation should have dragged you in too, I'm really sorry..."

"Company Commander Sun is too polite. Since we encountered difficulties, let's think of a way to solve it together," Lin Xian said frankly.

Kiki also followed: "That's right, who knew the situation here would become like this."

Shi Diyuan said immediately: "Right, think on the bright side, there is strength in numbers. Brother Lin and Little Sister Kiki are both powerful espers, there must be more ways than before. Right, where is Team Leader Yu? Quick, I'll introduce a treasure talent to her."

"Esper?" Sun Kai frowned slightly upon hearing this.

"This Little Sister Kiki is a telekinesis esper, can go to heaven and enter the earth. Just now, she alone could drive back a wave of monsters. She alone is worth ten heavy cannons. I'm not talking about weight, hahaha..."

Shi Diyuan said half-jokingly, making Kiki's face freeze. Then he pointed to Lin Xian again: "And my Brother Lin, a mechanical esper, can fix machines. Is it powerful or not? I think your Emperor Project must really need this kind of talent. Maybe he can fix this big guy, then can't we rush out?!"

Sun Kai looked at Lin Xian with surprised eyes upon hearing this. A mechanical esper, it was the first time he had heard of it. And after Shi Diyuan mentioned that Lin Xian could fix machines, he immediately perked up.

Lin Xian listened to Shi Diyuan blowing his horn and immediately opened his mouth to stop him.

"No, no, no, Brother Shi, didn't I just say, such a big mecha, I'm not necessarily sure I can fix it. I have to check it first."

Lin Xian's words made the hopeful expression that had just appeared on Sun Kai's face sink again. He calmed down immediately, looked at Lin Xian with a scrutinizing gaze, and then said somewhat embarrassedly: "If this is the case, then don't look for Team Leader Yu. They are busy studying the breakout plan and are also trying to fix some subsystems of the No. 0 mecha. I plan to take people down to the ice valley again before sunset to see if we can..."

"Eh, eh, eh..." Shi Diyuan interrupted his words: "Didn't I just say, Brother Lin is a mechanical esper. Since we want to fix it, he can also help, right?"

Lin Xian looked at Sun Kai at this time and found that he seemed somewhat embarrassed, so he said directly: "Is it because of confidentiality?"

The Emperor Project belongs to the Phoenix Society's top-secret plan. Although the content of the plan has been exposed in general, involving the core assembly and other secrets of the mecha, Lin Xian estimates that it should also be strictly confidential. After all, the Phoenix Society's enemies now are not just the Dark Tide.

However, Sun Kai's next words made Lin Xian realize that his thinking was a bit narrow.

Sun Kai scanned the few people and took a deep breath, then said: "It counts, but it's not entirely because of confidentiality. It's mainly because I think you shouldn't be able to communicate any results."

"Ah, why?" Kiki frowned.

Sun Kai patted the wind and snow on his power armor and said seriously: "If it were the Nightwalker organization, they would definitely be very interested in you and your esper abilities, but the people of the Emperor Project are the complete opposite. The reason why the Phoenix City established this plan is because some people firmly believe that relying on the technological revolution of mankind can lead human civilization to the dawn. You can understand it as different research routes. The Nightwalker organization studies esper abilities and dark invasion, and the Emperor Project studies mechas and military weapons. So there is no one in the entire Emperor Project who is an esper."

"What!?" Kiki was very speechless: "Your Phoenix Society also has such differences, this is too much of a child's play, right?"

"It's not really a difference."

Sun Kai shrugged and said: "The highest program of our Phoenix Society is the survival of human civilization as the will. This point is the same no matter which plan or department it is. It's just that everyone's research direction is different. In fact, there is no connection or difference between the two departments. Even in some special actions, there will be cooperation. For example, in this plan, there was a Nightwalker team to guard, but unfortunately, they have sacrificed. And within the Nightwalker organization, there are also various mechanized weapons and vehicles provided by the Emperor Project."

"Right, isn't that pretty good." Shi Diyuan said very speechlessly: "Then what else is there to say."

"But directly intervening in the core research content of the other department is different. What's more, we are not even people from the Nightwalker organization, so that's even more impossible. Company Commander Sun means this, right?" Lin Xian said with a clear heart.

Sun Kai smiled bitterly and nodded. He looked at Lin Xian and said: "Actually, this situation is the first time I've encountered it. There are actually people in the world who are both espers and happen to be able to intervene in the technological field, simply..."

For a time, he couldn't find any words to describe it.

An esper, but his main job is driving a mecha.

I really don't know what the people of the Nightwalker organization and the people of the Emperor Project would think if they saw this scene.

"I don't think so."

Shi Diyuan looked at Lin Xian with appreciative eyes: "When Brother Lin was at the Yubei Airport corridor, he proposed the traction plan. As an esper, he solved the technical and mechanical problems that the technical team couldn't solve, and he himself is also a powerful combat force when confronting those strange entities. I think no matter if it's in your Nightwalker organization or the Emperor Project's high-level, they will recognize and respect such talent. Anyway, if it were me, I would be flattering him too late. What's more, now life and death are at stake, there is no time to engage in any red tape. Only idiots would engage in this kind of prejudice!"

Shi Diyuan's words almost made Lin Xian and Kiki laugh. "Brother Shi, why don't we forget it, let's think of other ways." Lin Xian looked at the huge mecha in the distance, thinking that he would go and touch it first to get a general idea.

Otherwise, discussing it back and forth, and finally not having a result, is purely a waste of time.

Sun Kai pondered slightly upon hearing this and said directly: "Let's do this, I'll take you to talk to Team Leader Yu and the others. Just as Captain Shi and the others said, now life and death are at stake, having a way is better than having none."

"That's right!" Shi Diyuan said with a loud voice.

Lin Xian and Kiki exchanged glances, and then didn't say anything else, following them into the tent.

As soon as they entered the tent, the space inside suddenly opened up. The biting cold wind was completely isolated. Inside was an open combat command center with sufficient heating systems. There were more than twenty people inside, and both sides were filled with various computer instruments. Many members of the Emperor Project's technical team were busy.

In the central area, a metal operation cabin with a circular base stood. Countless pipelines were connected to a man wearing a special operation armor like a spider web. On the screen next to it, various neural docking states, pilot physical signs, and hundreds of parameters of the No. 0 mecha were displayed, making people's scalps tingle at a glance.

"Full resonant neural interaction system, neural telepathy control technology, looks so cool." Kiki couldn't help but exclaim when she saw this scene.

Lin Xian nodded: "Such a large mecha, and it's a humanoid weapon, human neural telepathy is indeed the best solution." Sun Kai looked at the two with some surprise: "It seems you really know your stuff. Wait a moment, I'll go call Team Leader Yu over."

At this time, Company Commander Sun walked over and communicated a few words with a young man next to the metal operation cabin. The man then turned his head and looked at Lin Xian and Shi Diyuan.

This man was delicate and wore gold-rimmed glasses, looking less than forty years old, his gaze like electricity. At this time, seeing Shi Diyuan and Lin Xian and Kiki beside him, his face was a bit heavy. After listening to Sun Kai for a while, he handed the mobile terminal in his hand to a staff member next to him very impatiently, and then walked quickly toward the few.

"This Team Leader Yu is the temporary person in charge of this group. Their original team leader sacrificed a few days ago. He is the deputy team leader, who was in charge of the technical team before. A sour scholar." At this time, Shi Diyuan suddenly whispered in Lin Xian and Kiki's ears.

Lin Xian nodded lightly upon hearing this, and roughly understood the other party's personality.

"Hello, Yu Yuheng." The man wearing gold-rimmed glasses walked to Lin Xian, his face cold, and stretched out his hand to him.

"Lin Xian, Kiki." Lin Xian introduced himself.

Yu Yuheng looked at the two, nodded and said: "Thank you for your help. I heard you are a mechanical esper. I don't know what the specific characteristics of your esper ability are?"

"My esper ability can repair and manufacture machines."

Lin Xian looked at Yu Yuheng, went straight to the point, and then raised his hand to perform mechanical manufacturing.

In an instant, a light screen appeared, countless materials flew out, began to forge, assemble, and soon, a precision small drone appeared in Lin Xian's hand. The four rotors operated at high speed, flying quietly on Lin Xian's palm.

!

At this time, Yu Yuheng and the group of technical team researchers around saw this scene, and their expressions changed drastically.

"This... manufacturing out of thin air?!" Yu Yuheng frowned. Even though he was knowledgeable, such an esper ability still made him feel very shocked.

As a core technical person of the mecha team, he naturally realized what manufacturing a precision small drone out of thin air represented.

Don't look at it as just a small drone. The core components involved in the society before the Apocalypse involved at least 15 subdivided industrial fields, exceeding 30 related supporting industries. A simple power system included motors, speed controllers, battery packs, propellers, not to mention flight control systems, radar, gimbals, sensing loads, cameras, infrared sensors, lidar, image transmission systems, cooling modules, etc...

But this was not over. Lin Xian directly grabbed the drone, reached out and broke one of the rotors, and then he operated mechanical repair. In the light screen, the broken rotor was reshaped like an invisible 3D printer, recovering as before.

To facilitate understanding, the drone Lin Xian manufactured was just a small drone used for reconnaissance, with a simple structure.

And this time, the people of the Emperor Project Group 1 were completely stunned.

"What kind of ability is this?"

"Too heaven-defying."

"A human factory?"

Yu Yuheng raised his glasses repeatedly. At this time, even his breathing became heavier, his lips dry. He was stunned for a full half minute before reacting. Originally, he was prepared to decline the participation of Lin Xian and Kiki, these two espers, but at this time, he had a lot of curiosity.

"Can you manufacture larger things, for example, this." Yu Yuheng walked to the side at this time, picked up a mobile terminal, found a picture and handed it to Lin Xian.

"This thing is called a phase conduction prism, weighing 12 tons, with a very complex structure, and also contains polycrystalline information tube pipelines..."

Lin Xian frowned upon hearing this: "If there are blueprints, I can, but it needs time and materials."

"How long?" Yu Yuheng asked.

"Such a large component, at least 8 hours," Lin Xian said.

Yu Yuheng's face changed upon hearing this, he sighed with a frown, and then looked at Lin Xian: "Your ability is very powerful, an absolute creative talent, but... I'm sorry, if you can't manufacture this component in a short time, you can't help much."

He said and looked down, as if convincing himself, and sighed with relief: "I said that creation has a certain logic. If it's just manufacturing products with corresponding blueprints, although it's an esper ability, it's essentially what our industrial production lines can do. If in the wild, with sufficient time, it is indeed convenient, but in this situation, it can't solve any core problems."

Yu Yuheng said and looked at Lin Xian: "I am actually very curious about you espers, but I also know that the use of your esper abilities is essentially related to a certain energy threshold in your body. People in the Nightwalker organization call it spiritual power or soul-swing value or something... No matter what it is, now the whole world, except for those special people, seems to be basically in the growth stage, according to the current growth progress, 3 to 4 levels... according to the Nightwalker organization's evaluation standard, it seems to be like this... My meaning is, even if you can repair, but the volume of the No. 0 mecha is too large for you. Logically speaking, you shouldn't be able to handle it. However, there are some key parts, maybe you can help..."

Lin Xian and the three heard Yu Yuheng's words and couldn't help but frown.

Yu Yuheng's words seemed to reveal a lot of information, but Lin Xian also found some keys in his words. It seems that in the eyes of these scientists, the esper ability of espers presents a certain growth curve.

So Yu Yuheng believes that even if Lin Xian has the ability to create, he cannot complete this kind of creation at the level of the No. 0 mecha in a short time. Even with blueprints, it is in the category of industrial production.

Part of this was indeed guessed right by him. Lin Xian's mechanical manufacturing and mechanical swallowing ability is indeed at level 4. With his ability, he really cannot repair a mechanical structure of such a large volume in a short time. Not to mention repairing, even scanning operations are a very big test for him.

Kiki was anxious upon hearing this: "Hey, after talking for a long time, what situation did your No. 0 mecha encounter, which subsystems encountered failures, can it still be repaired, you didn't say a single one, we don't even know how to help?"

Yu Yuheng raised his glasses: "Sorry, other problems are more serious than the components I just mentioned. Since the simplest one can't be solved, based on the principle of confidentiality, I won't take out the others to chat, but..."

He said and looked at Lin Xian: "Mr. Lin, if we can survive this time, I will upload and report your information. In some manufacturing aspects of our Emperor Project, for example, manufacturing factories might be very interested in your ability. The environment of our manufacturing factory is currently very safe, maybe it's a good place for you, and the treatment is not bad."

Manufacturing factory?

Lin Xian was stunned upon hearing this. Is his ability only regarded as a human-shaped 3D printer in their eyes?

"Hey, hey, hey, is it that mysterious? It's already this time."

Kiki was dissatisfied with Yu Yuheng's mysterious set, pointed her chin at the pilot wearing the operation equipment inside and said: "Isn't it just a full resonant neural interaction system, neural telepathy control technology, mecha height 90-115 meters, the power core should be a dual-core fusion reactor turbine processor, dual-person neural telepathy driving, the control system and AI quantum core should be developed separately, the one above is a complex multi-aperture array wave radar, the leg is equipped with a hydraulic power distributor, should have used a 500kt gyro stabilizer, the joint is a KKG-level high-agility torque drive, to achieve body agility and balance for such a large volume and weight, at least more than 4000 muscle units, each muscle unit is equipped with 2 magnetic control engine groups, then let me guess, the ankle is attached with a magneto-rheological damper and at the same time equipped with a 04fsx-level cooling exhaust/water port..."

"And weapons and stuff, besides that folding high-frequency blade chain sword, the extreme energy capacitor on the right hand looks like it's equipped with a plasma cannon, maybe there is a hidden vertical missile launch system, orbital incineration cannon, ultra-high pressure pulse electric hammer, blah blah blah..."

As she spoke, the faces of the group of technical team members behind Yu Yuheng became darker and darker. At this time, looking at this petite little girl, their expressions became complicated.

Yu Yuheng's pupils dilated at this time, looking at Kiki incredibly, saying: "You... how do you know these?"

Kiki crossed her arms and said very impatiently: "Military technology research is all in these directions. This big guy looks like it should be the masterpiece of our human technology at present. It's impossible to suddenly break through the Zenith technology in a few months and evolve directly from the starry sky propulsion system to the starry sky curvature engine accelerator, right?"

"No." Yu Yuheng looked at Kiki solemnly: "My meaning is, how do you know so much about these top-secret research projects?"

Kiki's expression froze upon hearing this. Only then did she react that she had let something slip. So she rolled her big eyes and glanced at Lin Xian, quickly covering up: "I... used to like to go to some military fan and technology forums."

Lin Xian almost laughed out loud. Technology forums, you directly hacked into the original Federation system to swim, even the blueprints of the GK03 electric knife were stolen by you, what else don't you know.

Yu Yuheng and Sun Kai looked at Kiki suspiciously. This little girl's words sounded like she knew more than military spies, which was hard not to make people suspicious.

Click, hiss.

At this time, the man wearing heavy operation armor ahead made a sound of automatic unloading of parts from various parts of his body. Several small mechanical arms stretched out, precisely dismantling the mechanical operation parts one by one. At this time, a tall man wearing a camouflage short sleeve walked down from the console, and a staff member next to him quickly handed over a thick cold-weather suit and coat.

Then the man walked over with a tiger-like wind while putting on his clothes, and asked Yu Yuheng and Sun Kai coldly: "Who are these two people?"

"A mechanical esper who came to support." Yu Yuheng said: "Maybe he can help us manufacture some key parts."

Chen Wei scanned Lin Xian and Kiki lightly upon hearing this, and then said coldly to Yu Yuheng: "Let them go to other places to help, don't come here to add to the chaos."

After speaking, his face carried a chill that kept people away, and he left directly.

Yu Yuheng also looked at Lin Xian at this time, signaled a helpless smile to him and walked away. Then Sun Kai could only take the three out of the tent.

"Who is this guy, so smelly, we came to help, how come he is the one who is awesome." Kiki was suffocated by Chen Wei's attitude.

"Hey, he is the pilot of this mecha, seems to be called..." Shi Diyuan frowned: "Chen what..."

"Chen Wei." Sun Kai followed behind the three and sighed:

"This No. 0 mecha was driven by him and his brother Chen Lie. Both of them were once ace fighter pilots of the Interstellar Army. Now they are Level 5 resonance coefficient mecha pilots. They are the first batch of pilots of the Emperor Project. The temper... is a bit smelly."

(End of chapter)