Chapter 1211: Chapter 468: Mecha Upgrade Plan

[Devour successful, Mechanical Source Point +1100, Devouring Proficiency +230]

Whoosh!

Under the night sky at Wah Island Airport, a large wide-body aircraft, along with its broken wings, turned to ash. All the remaining organic matter, including human corpses, fell to the ground with a rustling noise, disturbing a number of zombies nearby. They twisted their already rusty joints, emitting a creaking sound as they quickly moved through the darkness. Their hoarse roars came in waves, but after approaching the source of the sound, they once again lost their target, their decayed green eyes searching all around.

Lin Xian stood silently on a drone, hovering in the air. At this moment, he looked at the bright screen in front of him with a rather excited look in his eyes.

"This is the first time I’ve devoured an airliner. Although the airframe is damaged, the engines and avionics systems are intact, and it converted into over a thousand Mechanical Source Points..."

[Current Mechanical Heart Level LV.6 (40900/50000)]

[Mechanical Awakening]: Mechanical Lord

Mechanical Devouring: 6 (3130/5000) Improve devouring efficiency

Mechanical Manufacturing: 6 (1560/5000) Improve construction efficiency

Looking at the Mechanical Heart panel, Lin Xian took a deep breath: "After tonight’s scavenging, it should be enough. At worst, I’ll rest tomorrow..."

For once, there was no impending shadow of crisis hanging overhead. Lin Xian was certainly prepared to seize this opportunity. The newly gained [Energy Transition] from the enhancement and the legendary skill [Supercritical Diffraction Sword] obtained from devouring a Dreadnought Level have been very useful on Sea Rock Island. As the human situation becomes increasingly critical, delving into the potential of his mechanical superpower is undoubtedly a sensible choice.

Having made up his mind, Lin Xian immediately began to devour the other two narrow-body airliners, as well as the transport ship, not sparing even the crashed flying devices.

Because he needed not only to devour Mechanical Source Points but also to collect more high-level materials for the construction sequences in the Black Star Forge.

Currently, as long as it’s not a crisis situation or a battle, Lin Xian always activates all the 6 construction sequences. There’s still a significant gap in the things he needs to build, more functional drones, helping him with construction, repair, transportation, maintenance, and Lin Xian is preparing a mecha army.

This army is not just attack-type drones for swarm tactics, but real combat mecha like Qian Suxun’s. Lin Xian has currently built 4 ’Steel Bone’ series mecha for Luo Yang to experiment with, and the results are quite promising.

This time, unexpectedly acquiring a military train from the Federation Interstellar Army’s 974 Defense Group, with its mecha combat group, gave Lin Xian a new idea.

The core of the former human interstellar army combat mecha was people; exoskeletons and mechas were devices serving people. Apart from service robots, only drones had swarm strike capabilities.

But for current human technology, there’s a very critical issue, which is that including the Thunder Falcon 2000, all drones are somewhat weak against large Abnormal Bodies, even though swarm technology can increase efficiency. However, the Abnormal Bodies evolved in the dark have developed biological force fields and energy attack methods, coupled with the capability of information suppression brought by the darkness invasion. Attack drones designed before Apocalypse Day are difficult to have a very high ceiling.

Now, half of Lin Xian’s drones are manufactured by him, and the other half were ’seized’ from Qin Feng in Dawn City. Although they indeed have played quite a role during their journey across the skies and seas, none of them have achieved Lin Xian’s goal of a vast force that can directly annihilate Abnormal Bodies.

Therefore, he plans to redesign a type of drone mecha specifically for dealing with Abnormal Bodies. It doesn’t need human operation, possesses strong defense, soft and hard killing power, and must also have a distributed communication architecture and interference-resistant technology combined with dark energy phase synchronization. With this, Lin Xian will be able to mass-produce these units like replicating an army, gradually forming a steel legion capable of threatening even the Special Level or S-Class.

Currently, Lin Xian’s blueprint only contains Qian Suxun’s ’Steel Bone’ and ’ACS’, and besides these, only the ’Dancer No.1’ blueprint from the Deep Red World remains. The interstellar army series like Fire God and Guardian are all human-operated. Even if remote control components were temporarily installed, it would only be a stopgap measure, not a long-term solution.

On this point, Lin Xian discussed with Mochizuki Masashi, and previously had a simple understanding through Yu Yuheng about the Emperor Plan. In this aspect, the Emperor Plan actually had two development paths: one was the super-large human weapon - Pangu, and the other was the Iron Bee Swarm.

However, Yu Yuheng was not clear about this Iron Bee Swarm project, nor was any real machine manufactured. So, comprehensively, Lin Xian could only solve it himself by integrating his ideas into creating one.

[Devour successful, Mechanical Source Point +260, Devouring Proficiency +40]

A narrow-body airliner that had broken into two segments was devoured by Lin Xian. Looking at the screen, Lin Xian contacted Viola.

"Viola."

[I’m here.]

"If I create a batch of flight control systems combining Steel Bone and Iron Hunter Power Armor, and then create a batch of fire control units combining Dancer No.1 and Ghost Wolf Power Armor for matching, wouldn’t that be an upgraded version of Steel Bone and Reaper?"

At this moment, Viola remotely projected a holographic interface through Lin Xian’s Power Armor, showing a fusion image of the two kinds of power armor and Dancer No.1’s sleek body, then said in his ear

[This is quite a crude plan, which could result in at least 5.3%-17% of the predetermined functional units and manufacturing materials being wasted, and there are issues with the main framework not being fully compatible. Compared to the ’Steel Bone’, some overall defense is sacrificed. However, Dancer No.1’s synthetic torso can perfectly match the driving compartment of the power armor, equivalent to a reproductive armor enhancement of Dancer No.1. Under the premise of high flexibility and intelligence, it will also possess the defense, weaponization, and upgraded power components of power armor. In comprehensive strength, it will exceed ’Steel Bone’ and ’ACS’]