Chapter 58: Ceryneian Hind

Optical Camouflage technology.

Even without recovering the Iron Blood warriors' equipment, the Mother Nest and the company's other branches have already begun researching this technology.

Moreover, progress has been fairly good, but some key points still lack a solution.

With the ready-made Iron Blood equipment, those key points' difficulties were readily resolved.

Regarding the plasma technology of the shoulder cannon, the company actually has related projects underway.

But progress has been rather unsmooth, and its funding consumption far exceeds that of the electromagnetic cannon of the same period, so it ultimately suffered a harsh burial by the company's upper management.

Now, with the Iron Blood shoulder cannon as a basis, thanks to the efforts of Wang Zhaofeng's team, the Mother Nest already has the capability to replicate a slightly crude version of the shoulder cannon, and even plans to develop derivative models of plasma cannons.

The Mother Nest's replicated version of the shoulder cannon has low, medium, and high three power firing modes.

Considering that Wang Zhaofeng's team temporarily cannot reverse-engineer the Iron Blood clan's microfusion technology, they can only use hydrogen batteries as a substitute.

Each time a highest-power plasma cannon volley is fired, it consumes the full energy of one hydrogen battery.

Low power allows twelve shots, medium power allows three shots.

In other words, if the shoulder cannon is mounted on the mechanical exoskeleton, after multiple uses the mechanical exoskeleton will lose its power supply.

Solutions are not nonexistent.

The simplest, and also what the company can currently achieve most easily, is to install several spare hydrogen batteries.

However, each hydrogen battery costs $70,000 to manufacture, and each recharge consumes $3,000, not counting the shoulder cannon's production cost.

Therefore, mass-producing shoulder cannon equipment is unrealistic; only small-scale equipping of elites is possible.

As for the Iron Blood clan's boomerang, wrist blade, and war spear technologies, the Mother Nest's research team hardly needs to carefully reverse-engineer them.

Because the sharpness of these cold weapons stems from their metal density, strength, and melting point being far higher than any metal on Earth.

Better than nothing.

Replicating these cold weapons with Earth metals can also enrich the company's troops' melee weapon options.

In addition, the Mother Nest team has also developed a heavy-duty model of the mechanical exoskeleton.

NEST-Exoskelelton-1-Heavy.

Abbreviated as NE-1H.

The heavy model is equipped with titanium alloy armor, greatly increasing personnel's defensive capacity; left and right arms can mount a specially modeled six-barrel rotary machine gun.

The modified rotary machine gun's prototype is the M134 Minigun, using 7.62x51mm NATO ammunition.

And the Mother Nest has made minor modifications to the M134, and the ammunition also uses the 7.62AP-FMJ compatible with the MA5B, enhancing armor-piercing capability against armored targets.

Finally, the shoulder section of the heavy mechanical exoskeleton can also mount a shoulder-launched M202A1 four-tube rocket launcher.

Equipped with four hydrogen batteries, it is sufficient to sustain NE-1H's continuous combat for ten hours.

At first sight of the Mother Nest's developed NE-1H, Sui Bian thought of the "Rogue Armor" from Atlas Company in COD11.

It is virtually identical.

Humanoid tank.

Afterwards, Sui Bian gave the NE-1H the nickname "Rogue Battle Armor".

Wang Zhaofeng and the other researchers also thought it was nothing unusual, because according to the on-paper data it is quite cunning.

After a walk through the high-tech R&D area on the third level of the Mother Nest, it was already 19:44 on September 30.

The sky was already dark.

Although the underground Mother Nest cannot see the sky, humanity's innate biological clock still lets the employees inside gradually slow their work pace, preparing to tidy up and head to the Mother Nest's second level for relaxation or rest.

Sui Bian likewise came to the second level of the Mother Nest.

First he ate in the cafeteria, then returned to his dormitory to take a hot shower, changed into comfortable pajamas, sat at the computer, and began to review the materials and contract prepared by Bai Hou for him.

These are all about strengthening economic and military cooperation with France, and increasing arms orders with the US military, and similar plans.

These decisions that have risen to the national level still require Sui Bian's approval or rejection.

Actually, after returning from Antarctica, the Mother Nest is like a car that has just entered the highway, wildly speeding forward.

Cloning Xenomorphs, Iron Blood, reverse-engineering Iron Blood technology, and developing the Reconstructed Soldier project.

As October approaches, the Mother Nest, this high-speed racing car, has finally slowed down a bit.

The company now has 20 Reconstructed Soldiers; shoulder cannons and optical camouflage may possibly be deployed in combat next year, and there is also a cloned Xenomorph queen and a cat-faced Iron Blood youth.

The cat-faced clone, as well as Xenomorphs hatched via D-class personnel, are used for BoKen to perfect the G virus experiment.

Of course, Sui Bian also hasn't forgotten Alekxia, who remains in hibernation.

The Mother Nest's research team has drawn her blood and is currently isolating the T-Veronica virus, to be used as a backup virus for the company's B. O. W. production and super-soldier program.

Actually, during this period on September 18, Umbrella intelligence personnel also made contact with a tentatively non-threatening anomalous phenomenon.

However, when the intelligence personnel called for armed security support stationed in Europe and prepared to capture it, they discovered its running speed was extremely fast, and upon entering the forest it instantly vanished from sight.

Fortunately, the intelligence personnel and armed security, while conducting the capture, also filmed it, giving the company video footage of the anomalous phenomenon.

Judging from the video footage, the anomalous phenomenon is an unidentified creature about 2.5 meters in length and approximately 1.9 meters in height, resembling an elk in appearance.

The reason it is classified as unidentified is that its headgear emits a dazzling golden light.

Moreover, its running speed can reach 170 kilometers per hour, which already far exceeds the maximum running speed of all cervid animals.

From September 18 to now, the company dispatches two small teams each day to search the forest area where the anomalous phenomenon disappeared.

But they have found nothing.

Based on the footage, the Red Queen, after judging by the anomalous phenomenon's appearance, finds the most similar creature in human history to be the Ceryneian Hind.

Speaking of history, it might be better said to be a mythical creature described in ancient Greek mythology.

Regarding this, Sui Bian instinctively does not want to believe that the anomalous phenomenon is a mythical creature.

But he has been able to transmigrate, and since the first day he arrived in this world, the system has mentioned to him that mythical-type anomalous phenomena might exist.

If that vanished anomalous phenomenon truly is the Ceryneian Hind, then this world might also possess the Olympian Gods, as well as the wild history heroes found in Homer's Epic.

So, based on the habits of the Ke lv nie pin lu, Red Queen judged it to be currently non-threatening.

What puzzled Sui Bian was where the infinitely glorious gods of the past had gone.

What worried him more was whether, if they truly encountered a so-called 'god', Umbrella's current scale, technology, and strength could mount a resistance.

Hmm.

He felt worried.

"Forget it, the more I think about it the more anguished I feel; better to develop steadily."

Sui Bian, who had been working in his dormitory until late at night, stretched, deciding not to continue obsessing over the god question, and instead prepared to brush his teeth, wash his face, and go to sleep to rest.

Just as he was about to get up to shut down the computer, Red Queen reported via the computer's speaker: "Sir, the security team has detained a woman claiming to be Ada Wang."

(End of chapter)