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Chapter 336 Picking a Driver
"Your idea is too risky." After hearing Locke's words, Stike thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice, "I need a guarantee."

"Within two months, another Horizon Warrior will complete the transformation of the autopilot and reach the level of the fourth-generation mecha." Locke said without hesitation:

"In addition, the destructive power of the Kaiju Beast is getting stronger and stronger, and the existing mecha hunters with weak armor are out of date. I can be responsible for the armor enhancement and transformation of these mecha hunters."

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The appearance of Shanlan, the world's first fourth-level Kaiju beast, caused an uproar, and at the same time dealt a heavy blow to the chaotic world.

The experts who clamored that the fourth-level Kaiju beast could not even exist in theory shut up, and even the look of ordinary people who regarded Kaiju beast as a joke in their eyes has disappeared.

Even in the face of the siege, Shanlan still severely damaged the fourth generation of Mecha Mammoth Apostle, which also made people's blind confidence in Mecha Hunters begin to dissipate, and some people finally began to realize that this is actually an asymmetrical battle. It goes without saying who is the weaker side.

After the collapse of blind self-confidence, the stock market also ushered in a disaster, countless people went bankrupt, and the banking system was also severely hit. Many people chose to withdraw their money from the bank. There were long queues in major supermarkets, and various supplies were snapped up. .

In the midst of this disaster, the stock price of the Li Group also ushered in a big dive, but Locke had been prepared for a long time. Instead, he finally made a lot of money in the financial market, and also made money to help PPDC's existing mech hunters. Most of the funds needed for the transformation of the armor, but the world's barely stable situation has become turbulent again.

In February 2019, a third-level Kaiju beast named Raging Wave invaded Busan, South Korea. Like Shanlan, this Kaiju beast uses synergistic parasitism, and its overall radiation is slightly weaker than Shanlan.

Simply absorbing the previous lessons, PPDC is also prepared. In addition to the Japanese mech Echo Saber and the invisible ronin, it also mobilized Storm Crimson and Shaolin Ranger, and successfully killed the Kaiju Beast.

But even so, the invisible ronin was seriously injured. After discussing with Locke for a long time, Steck and Locke agreed to overhaul the invisible ronin at the cost price
At this time, Locke put most of his energy on the new sixth-generation mecha hunters. After all, because of the butterfly effect he brought, the pioneers on the other side of the wormhole were not idle, and there was no parasitic development in the original plot. Chrysanthemum beast and the like.

After all, the pioneers are not the BOSS in the game. They can only send out fixed subordinates to die one by one according to the mechanism. Instead, they have been constantly adjusting to the actual situation of the Kaiju beast invasion.

At the same time, except for the two completed Horizon Warriors, they were delivered to PPDC and deployed at the Hong Kong base and the Tokyo base respectively.

The other is the upgrade of the armor of the Mammoth Apostle. This mecha is a typical one. It was designed to be lightweight from the beginning, so it was broken twice in the original plot, and finally the dangerous wanderer had to clean up the mess.

Fortunately, the engine of the Mammoth Apostle is powerful enough, and the weapon is strong enough. Locke took a lot of thought to redesign and strengthen its armor, hoping to avoid the situation of the original plot.

Since realizing that Kaiju beasts will appear continuously, human beings have been trying their best to develop weapons that can deal an effective blow to Kaiju beasts.

But so far, the results obtained are not ideal. The main reason is that there are few opportunities for actual testing. The weapons used by many mech hunters are actually experimental weapons and equipment.

Therefore, the main battle weapons equipped by each Mecha Hunter are different.

General Chrome is equipped with a flamethrower, and Blue Romeo is equipped with three large-caliber cannons.

The ion cannon originally equipped by the dangerous wanderer is also an experimental version, with a range of only 50 meters. That is to say, it has recently received technical support from Locke. The improved ion cannon's range has been increased several times, and it can be used remotely.

There are also the microwave weapons used by the Mammoth Apostle, and the electric shock weapons on the Corinthian giant snake's fists, all of which were developed by scientific researchers to target Kaiju beasts.

Naturally, Locke has also participated in the research on the weapons of Kaiju beasts, and even the "reverse Kaiju missiles" that eliminated the Kaiju beasts such as the ax head in the early stage have been further improved. Before the mech hunter appeared, it was used as a weapon to eliminate Kaiju beasts .

However, because of its wide range of damage, it is easy to cause accidental injury. In addition to the characteristics of the Kaiju Beast, although such a missile itself is not polluted, it cannot avoid killing the Kaiju Beast while spreading a large amount of Kaiju Beast's blood.

For this reason, Locke re-developed a weapon based on the characteristics of the Kaiju Beast—the Broken Armor Bullet.

This is designed according to the characteristics of Kaiju Beast. It adopts plastic charge and time-delay fuze. After hitting Kaiju Beast, the special ultra-thin eggshell will break.

At this time, the plastic explosive in the fragmented armor bomb will accumulate on the target surface under the action of inertia, and explode after a short delay.

The stress wave generated by the explosion will reflect back again after penetrating the surface of the target, and finally form a superimposed reflected tensile stress wave, which directly collapses the inner layer of the target.

Kaiju Beast's tough skin and thick amino jelly can insulate the kinetic energy and heat of most weapons, but the principle of damage caused by armor fragments is similar to hitting a wall with a hammer, and the side that is hit may be damaged Not too obvious, but the other side could be broken.

In other words, as long as the caliber is large enough, once a broken armor bullet passes by, it is equivalent to taking a huge hammer and hitting Kaiju Beast hard.

Based on this principle, Locke designed the armor-breaking missile, which uses solid rockets to accelerate the speed of the missile to supersonic speed in a short period of time, cooperates with directional blasting, hits the Kaiju Beast, and concentrates the explosion force in the direction of the Kaiju Beast.

Of course, in order to add an excessive amount of plastic explosives, the range will be very short, and the effective range is about 200 meters, but the Mech Hunter relies on close combat to fight against the Kaiju Beast, so the range problem is not a big deal.

In addition, in the process of designing and building the first sixth-generation mecha, Locke also made a lot of improvements to the existing mecha hunter design, such as support structures and internal frames.

Because of testing a lot of new technologies, Locke found that Adam, the new sixth-generation mech hunter, could not fully meet the requirements he needed. Even during the construction, Locke came up with many new ideas.

So after trying to drive it, Locke decided to redesign and build a mech himself. As for the newly built 'Adam', he planned to choose a driver to drive it.

According to Locke's understanding, most of the more than 100 pilots in the Hunter Academy were recruited to the Hunter Academy after lowering the requirements.

Among them, there are only a dozen pilots who are really capable enough, and most of them now have their own mechs, and the top ones are the few plot characters that appear in the plot, such as the Beckett brothers, Chuck Hansen , Mako Mori, etc.

Locke intends to choose one of these people as Adam's driver.

(End of this chapter)