I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 695 - 593. Electromagnetic Interference

Exoskeleton, Power Armor, Electromagnetic Rifle, Titan...

Watching the people of the Flame Country constantly pull out all sorts of impressive sci-fi styled equipment from their pants, the Lucia people felt like they had been left behind by an entire era.

"Vasily, what do you think the Flame Country people did to create these incredible things? Compared to them, I feel like we’re still stuck in World War II, using the same Mosin Nagant rifle my grandfather’s generation used!" Chekov complained to his friend, enviously looking at the nearby Titan spewing flames and death.

Vasily looked similarly envious, and it wasn’t just him; in fact, all Lucians were incredibly envious of the Flame Country’s military equipment.

Before the disaster, the two countries had frequently conducted joint military exercises, so the Lucia military was actually quite familiar with the Flame Country’s military equipment.

But now, it seemed as though after a disaster, the Flame Country people had started equipping themselves with all kinds of sci-fi gear, while the Lucia people were a century behind, as if still stuck in WWII.

Especially since they were facing alien creatures, which made the Lucia people feel like they had stumbled onto the set of some sci-fi blockbuster.

The lower-ranking soldiers were all extremely envious of the Flame Country’s military equipment, but this envy didn’t lead to any negative effects, because they had also received weapon upgrades from the Flame Country, including exoskeletons and electromagnetic rifles.

Having experienced the satisfaction brought by high-tech weapons, the lower-ranking soldiers did not develop any negative emotions because of this matter.

However, the higher-ranking officers were quite worried, as the Flame Country is Lucia’s neighbor, and now the Flame Country’s military equipment completely outclassed Lucia’s, causing these officers to worry about their country’s military equipment falling behind their neighbor.

Although the two countries are allies now and collectively fighting against alien creatures, and the Flame Country has never shown any aggression towards Lucia, this doesn’t make the Lucia officers feel at ease.

After all, national defense issues cannot rely on the benevolence of a powerful neighbor, no matter how benevolent that neighbor may be.

Therefore, after collecting and organizing information on the Flame Country’s current military equipment deployed on the battlefield, Lucia’s officers sent this information back home, urging domestic efforts to develop similar equipment or to seek technical support from the Flame Country to enable domestic production of such advanced equipment.

The Lucia high command naturally paid great attention to this, and in fact, they realized the problem earlier when the Flame Country sent personnel to aid the Lucia Capital; back then, Flame Country people were already showcasing exoskeletons, power armor, and Titans — these so-called black technological equipment — to the Lucia people.

However, at the time, Lucia was on the brink of collapse, and its high command needed to first address various livelihood issues to maintain and sustain the nation, leaving little energy and resources for the development of new equipment.

Especially since Lucia’s own scientific research capability had greatly declined over the years, with many advanced military equipment requiring what felt like archaeological efforts to retrieve data from archives dating back to the Suyia era in order to resume production, leaving Lucia, once one of the world’s poles, feeling quite ironic.

For this reason, once the livelihoods were restored, Lucia’s high command began to prioritize scientific research, instructing domestic research institutions to enhance national technology.

Without exaggerating to the level of the Flame Country, but at least able to ensure the production and living needs of its own people.

Upon receiving information and requests from the military, Lucia’s high command naturally forwarded these materials and requests to the relevant scientific departments.

However, regarding these, Lucia’s scientific departments could only express their helplessness.

Exoskeletons, electromagnetic rifles, power armor, and even Titans; with Lucia’s technological capabilities, they could be made, but energy issues couldn’t be resolved.

Obviously, not every country can have someone as if cheating to help solve problems like the Flame Country does; ordinary scientists seek breakthroughs, but results are not achieved in a short time.

After receiving feedback from the scientific departments, the Lucia government, although not abandoning the idea of independent research and development, had to seek technical cooperation from the Flame Country.

The Flame Country’s high command, while not exactly delighted, did not refuse Lucia’s request for technical cooperation.

After all, in the current environment, having an ally to cooperate and assist each other is far better than facing all problems alone or worse, creating an additional enemy.

Just as Lucia received approval from the Flame Country and prepared to form scientific teams for technical exchange, Chen Xin, one of the key figures in this, couldn’t find the time to take charge of this matter.

He was, at that moment, studying the irregular pause in alien attack patterns during a previous nuclear explosion with the biologists.

"I think we should draw inspiration from electromagnetic interference. Since we’ve now determined that aliens communicate via electromagnetic waves, we can use this as a breakthrough to deploy electromagnetic interference equipment to disrupt their communication, thereby affecting their command," a biologist proposed based on their existing research findings.

Chen Xin, after listening to the biologist, did not object.

Considering all current information and clues at hand, Chen Xin also believed that the interruption in alien attack previously was largely due to the EMP shockwave from the nuclear explosion affecting their communication pathways, disrupting their command.

"But we’ve experimented, and electromagnetic pulses don’t have any effect on the aliens!" another biologist raised an objection at this point.

A key impact of nuclear explosions is the EMP shockwave; they clearly won’t overlook such obvious information, especially since when aliens were first dissected, it was confirmed they communicated via electromagnetic signals, making them all the more likely to think of this possibility first.

However, strangely, multiple experiments had been conducted, both using living alien samples imprisoned in labs and direct battlefield trials, none had influenced the aliens.

For this reason, the biologists abandoned this line of thought, turning to other possibilities.

Yet, after trying numerous experiments round and round, they had to refocus on the idea of electromagnetic interference.

Because all other attempts had failed, among all possibilities, electromagnetic interference held the greatest potential.