Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 353 Biochemical Armor
"Then what?" Sun Hang asked.

Although he also used mycelium as a weapon and even used mycelium to create puppets that were "exactly the same" as himself, he had never thought about integrating Tai Sui mycelium with modern technology to create equipment that could be used by ordinary people.

After all, for Sun Hang himself, he is a super weapon, and those man-made weapons can only serve as icing on the cake... If he relies too much on these things, it would be putting the cart before the horse.

Apart from anything else, he didn't need to use PFDA at all for the last stage of the breakthrough operation - using electromagnetic field acceleration, he could easily break through the PFDA's Mach 5 maximum speed. Not only would he be faster, but he would also be more flexible in turning, accelerating, decelerating, and even stopping suddenly.

"I can only say that this thing is an extremely amazing biological material." Song Yarong said, "It has toughness and rigidity, and even has self-repair capabilities and precise controllability... It is an existence that cannot be replaced by man-made objects. But its biggest problem is that once it is disconnected from me, it will degrade in a few seconds and cannot be combined with PFDA at all."

"What is Tai Sui?" Fukada Miki interrupted.

A pale and slender hyphae stretched out from Song Yarong's fingertips and gently touched Fukada Miki's forehead.

"Wow, this thing...is it your memetic ability? You are not only a researcher, but also a monster hunter?" Fukada Miki exclaimed.

"To be precise, this is Sun Hang's ability." Song Yarong said, "He is my 'source of infection'."

Hearing Song Yarong say this, Fukada Miki was immediately surprised: "You infected her? But... the infected person actively infects humans, isn't this against..."

"He was trying to save my life that time, and it was an emergency hedging operation, so he doesn't need to bear any responsibility." Song Yarong finished speaking and turned to look at Sun Hang. "I have tried many times, but the longest time the Tai Sui mycelium lasted after leaving my body was only 3.4 seconds. Moreover, from 1.7 seconds on, its properties began to change, and those excellent physical properties also rapidly declined."

As she spoke, the piece of mycelium at Song Yarong's fingertips broke and fell off like a gecko's tail and fell into the palm of her other hand. Within two seconds, this piece of mycelium was like a plastic product that had aged due to exposure to sunlight. Song Yarong only touched it lightly with her finger and it turned into white powder.

"The only solution is for me to take the PFDA myself and connect the hyphae on my body to the PFDA." Song Yarong said, "Let me become a part of the PFDA, so that the PFDA can become a true 'biochemical armor'."

"Then can't you use mycelium to connect to other people's armor?" Fukada Miki asked, "Since the mycelium is so tough, it shouldn't break so easily during high-speed flight, right?"

"Yes, I can only cooperate with one team at most, and I can't take care of the teams in other directions." Song Yarong said, "So I want Sun Hang to think of a way to see if his mycelium can survive for a while after separating from the main body."

"How long will it take?" Sun Hang asked.

Sun Hang himself had not tested the longest survival time of the mycelium after leaving his body. Even the mycelium puppets he used as bait were connected to the main body by a large mycelium network buried shallowly in the ground. Once the connection between the puppet and the mycelium network was broken, Sun Hang would immediately lose control of the puppet.

But PFDA does not need control over the mycelium. It only needs the mycelium to maintain its original physical properties for a period of time to complete its task.

"PFDA will be delivered to the departure area in the form of semi-finished products. Taking into account assembly, debugging, engine ignition acceleration and formal penetration, I need the Tai Sui mycelium to remain in a stable state for at least fifteen minutes after leaving the body." Song Yarong said.

"Let me try." After saying that, Sun Hang threw a small ball of mycelium into a transparent box held in the arms of a researcher nearby.

The surface of the transparent box is connected to many cables, while the inside of the box is filled with densely packed monitoring instruments and micro-robotic arms. As soon as the mycelium entered the box, four robotic arms stretched out at the same time and fixed the mycelium in the center of the box. In addition, more than a dozen probes were also shot out at the same time and pierced into the interior of the mycelium.

Five seconds passed in the blink of an eye. The researcher holding the box took a look at the readings on the outside of the box and said in surprise: "Team Leader! There is no change in the data! The state of the mycelium is very stable!!"

"It's only five seconds. Why are you so excited? You're useless." Song Yarong said this, but she couldn't hide the surprise in her eyes. "Keep observing... Don't forget, we need fifteen minutes, not fifteen seconds!"

One minute.

three minutes.

five minutes.

Everyone held their breath and stared at the mycelium in the transparent box.

Ten minutes passed...and the performance readings of the mycelium still did not change significantly, and some researchers had already revealed ecstatic expressions on their faces.

Song Yarong glanced at her subordinates. She really wanted to say something like "Don't open the champagne at halftime", but she was afraid of being poisoned by herself, so she finally took a deep breath and said nothing.

Thirteen minutes... Fourteen minutes...

Fifteen minutes! "Yeah!" a researcher shouted, pumping his fist vigorously.

Voices of relief were heard one after another, and several people clapped each other in celebration. Some even ran to the side with their computers and began to prepare for the next step of work.

"Don't be too happy yet! Keep observing! The longer Sun Hang's mycelium can maintain a stable state, the more time is left for the maintenance team, and the higher the tolerance for action!" Song Yarong said.

It was not until twenty-two minutes and forty seconds that the instrument's readings began to change drastically. Then, in just half a second, the mycelium turned into powder and scattered at the bottom of the transparent box.

"Twenty-two minutes and forty points six and seven seconds!" The researcher holding the box carefully put it on the ground. Only then did he realize that his arms were sore, as if they were going to break. The total weight of this test box, including various equipment, was more than ten kilograms. Normally, after Sun Hang threw the mycelium in, he should have put the box on the laboratory table on the side. However, after five seconds, his mind was blank. He only knew to mechanically read the data displayed on the screen and completely forgot to put the box on the laboratory table.

Even the researchers who were watching forgot to remind him of this.

This resulted in this guy becoming a human scaffold, standing motionless for twenty-two minutes.

"Great!" Song Yarong clenched her fists and turned to look at Sun Hang. "Can you provide a large amount of this mycelium? After I increased the duration of my mycelium from 1.9 seconds to 3.4 seconds, I found that I couldn't produce a large amount of this mycelium. Moreover, forcibly producing this mycelium would make me feel very tired. No matter whether I rest or take medicine, this feeling of fatigue is difficult to eliminate. I can only wait for it to subside on its own."

"That ball of mycelium I just made casually... I didn't specifically extend its duration... If you need it, I can at least make a few tons of it." Sun Hang said, "But the prerequisite is that there are enough substances around for me to devour and transform into the composition of mycelium."

From this perspective, the mycelium of Tai Sui fungus still conforms to the law of conservation of matter.

When facing Chimera No. 17, many of those mycelium puppets were transformed from soil - in addition to connecting each mycelium puppet, the mycelium buried underground had the greatest function of absorbing the constituents of the soil like the roots of plants and transforming them into substances that constitute mycelium.

However, without absorbing external objects, Sun Hang can also split into several mycelium puppets - these mycelium puppets look as tall as real people, but in fact their mass is very small. The actual mass of a puppet is less than one kilogram, which can be said to be extremely lightweight.

If the mycelium hadn't lasted so short, this thing would definitely have sparked a revolution in the field of materials science.

"That's great! You don't need that much. One PFDA only needs less than 200 grams of Tai Sui mycelium! I'll show you the drawings of the parts later. You just need to use the mycelium components to make the corresponding parts according to the drawings. Someone will be responsible for the installation!"

Song Yarong did not tell Sun Hang that in order to minimize the time loss during the installation of mycelium, the technicians had practiced thousands of times in the past few days. The entire installation process has been optimized and shortened from the initial thirty minutes to the current eighty-five seconds.

"But I still have a question. How are you going to stop this thing?" Sun Hang asked. "The safety zone around Chimera 17 is only 300 meters. If you slow down in advance, you will increase the risk of being hit by Chimera 17's stress reaction. If you wait until you enter the safety zone to slow down... If I remember correctly, the latest fighter jets with extremely strong short-distance takeoff and landing capabilities also need a runway buffer of 300 to 400 meters when landing. Moreover, the fastest speed of these fighter jets is only a little over Mach 3, not to mention that they have already started to slow down in the air before landing on the runway... Now you want a Mach 5 thing to complete the process of deceleration to an emergency stop within a distance of 300 meters... Or do you plan to directly crash into Chimera 17?"

"You are wrong about one thing. The landing distance is not 300 meters, but nearly 600 meters." Song Yarong said, gesturing with both hands, "From one end of the safe zone to the other end of the safe zone... this is the diameter, not the radius."

"According to our calculations, after excluding the diameter and space occupied by Chimera 17, and keeping a safe distance of more than ten meters from Chimera 17, the maximum landing distance for PFDA is 490 meters. Of course, after the speed is reduced, we can also activate the reverse jet and the side jet to make the last section of the flight trajectory into an arc around Chimera 17... According to the results of computer simulation, the actual landing distance is more than 800 meters."

"Even if it's 800 meters, how do you plan to reduce the speed of a thing with a speed of Mach 5 to zero in 800 meters?" Sun Hang continued to ask, "Mach 5 is five times the speed of sound, 340 times 5, which is 1,700 meters per second... These 800 meters only take half a second."

"After entering the safe zone, the PFDA will directly discard the back thrusters and activate the deceleration thrusters in front of the armor and the steering thrusters on the side. At the same time, the armor will launch a sticky anchor hook at Chimera 17, using Chimera 17 to turn and decelerate." Song Yarong said, "When the deceleration process reaches the second stage, the armor will automatically disintegrate, and use the catapult inside the armor to 'bounce' the pilot to the ground. At the same time, the airbag inside the special driving suit will quickly inflate and turn into a huge balloon to cushion the reaction force generated by the impact with the ground."

"Not only that, the balloon itself also has a direction control device and micro-thrusters to ensure that the pilot will not be thrown out of the safe zone after landing... These have been simulated on the computer and have reached the stage of actual machine testing, but we are stuck on the mycelium material link." Song Yarong said, pointing to the researchers, engineers and technicians who were busy again, "Your arrival has helped us solve this problem. In an hour, the first actual machine test can officially begin!"

"Where are you going to test? Who will be the tester?" Sun Hang pointed at himself, "It can't be me, right?"

"In the southern suburbs, we have built a training ground that simulates the incubation area of ​​Chimera No. 17. In the center of the training ground, we have built a 'simulated cocoon' with high-strength concrete. The test will be conducted there. As for the testers, we have already selected them... But if you want to come and test it yourself, I can temporarily replace you!"

"No, no, I'll just take a look... Besides, I don't need PFDA." Sun Hang waved his hand immediately.

"Yes, your ability is much more useful than PFDA... It seems that we can build one less real machine." Song Yarong patted her helmet. "Come to think of it, your ability... comes from 'Kui Niu', right?"

"Yeah." Sun Hang nodded.

"What a pity! If I had known you could get this ability, I might have completely overturned the original PFDA design and redesigned a new set of intrusion equipment... What a pity! Time doesn't allow me to do that now." Song Yarong sighed, "But, PFDA is enough!"

(End of this chapter)