Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 413 I Think I Can Do It

"No."

“Although I don’t like teammates hiding their true strength, I hate people who like to exaggerate their abilities even more, because the latter can really kill people.” Liu Li said with a frown.

"If you don't believe me, you can just treat me as a blank hunter." Sun Hang said indifferently, "I have no objection anyway."

"That's not what I meant... I just want to confirm with you the extent of your ability." Liu Li said, "Take electromagnetic acceleration for example. Using this ability to move, how many times the speed of sound can you reach at your maximum speed?"

"I haven't tried it either. How about trying it now?" Sun Hang glanced outside the cabin. The helicopter had now flown to the suburbs of Tianfu City. A group of low-rise bungalows could be vaguely seen below. Due to the tight power supply, only the street lights on the main roads were on, and most of the blocks were shrouded in darkness.

"..." Liu Li stared at Sun Hang for half a minute, and finally shook his head, "Forget it."

The helicopter was flying very fast. In less than five minutes, the lights of Tianfu City were left far behind. Further ahead were the mountains surrounding Tianfu City and the gloomy clouds.

"The rain in the area around Chimera 17 is not natural rainfall, but a small-scale self-contained water circulation system driven mainly by the waste heat released by Chimera 17. Compared with naturally formed cumulonimbus clouds, the top of this water circulation system is much lower, less than two thousand meters high." There was a laptop on Liu Li's knees. On one side of the computer, there were several cables connected to a device stuffed under the seat. On the side of the device facing outside, there were a large number of red, green and yellow indicator lights flashing wildly.

"We are now at an altitude of 1800 meters. Once we get close to the restricted area, I will raise the helicopter to 2200 meters." Liu Li continued, "At that altitude we will not be affected by the rain, and the radiation intensity will be almost negligible. You will complete the final preparations right above Bunker No. , then parachute vertically, pass through the rain clouds, and directly reach Bunker No. ."

"Just jump down like that?" Crystal Princess couldn't help but ask.

"Of course not. While you are preparing, I will send drones and robots to survey Bunker No. 1 first." Liu Li said, "But in the past two hours, the radiation intensity in the area where Bunker No. 1 is located has risen sharply, and the ionization interference has increased by nearly a hundred times. This is a severe test for precision electronic equipment such as drones."

"I should be able to solve this problem." Sun Hang said suddenly.

"Solve? Do you mean the means to isolate ionization interference?" Liu Li was a little confused. "The four drones we brought this time have all been equipped with radiation protection and signal enhancement modules. This is already the upper limit of existing technological transformation. If we add more things, the weight of the drone will exceed the limit that the engine can bear... Not to mention using it in such severe weather with heavy rain. If these four drones crash, we will really be blind."

In addition to the four drones, they also carried sixteen military robots, but in order to remotely control these robots, they had to use drones to build a signal bridge in the air... Otherwise, due to the interference intensity in the restricted area, as long as the robot left the helicopter a few hundred meters away, the signal on the control terminal would be lost completely.

"Bring the drone here and let me see it." Sun Hang said.

Although Liu Li was still doubtful, he still dragged a metal box over from the side, took out a drone from it and handed it to Sun Hang.

This is an "XLR05" light military reconnaissance drone designed and produced by "Yunding Technology". The factory weight of this drone is only 3.75 kilograms, but the thing Sun Hang is holding in his hand now weighs at least ten kilograms.

The iron-gray camouflage on the surface of the drone has been completely washed off, replaced by a layer of anti-radiation coating. Several layers of shiny aluminum foil are also pasted on those important parts, making it look like patches on it.

The built-in antenna was also replaced with an external one... Although it is called an antenna, it looks more like a thick and short rolling pin. At the top of the "rolling pin" is an anemone-shaped transceiver made of many metal wires... Combined with the rolling pin underneath, Sun Hang felt that this thing was more like a kitchen utensil than a drone antenna.

"This drone has been specially modified and now weighs 5.19 kilograms." Liu Li said, "Although its four NVR03 motors can provide a maximum lift of 12 kilograms, considering the use environment, the probability of crashing will increase significantly after the weight exceeds 5.5 kilograms... So its modification space has been compressed to the limit. How do you plan to modify it further?"

"In other words, there are only two problems that need to be solved?" Sun Hang glanced at Liu Li. "One is the impact of radiation on the delicate electronic components inside the drone, and the other is signal interference, right?"

"Yes." Liu Li nodded.

"That's easy." As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Hang pulled the rolling pin off the drone.

"You!" Liu Li was shocked. "We only have four drones! You actually..."

"Don't be in a hurry." Sun Hang said as he peeled off the aluminum foil on the surface of the drone. After peeling off the aluminum foil, he produced a small knife from his palm and pried open the outer shell of the drone with a "click".

Liu Li stopped talking and just watched Sun Hang's actions expressionlessly - in his opinion, the drone had already been destroyed by Sun Hang anyway, so instead of arguing with him about something that was no longer meaningful, he might as well see what other tricks he could come up with for him.

The shell of the drone is made of polymer material, which sounds high-end, but it is very common if it is replaced by another name - plastic. However, although they are all plastics, plastics with different formulas have very different performance and prices. Plastics like the ones used in the shell of drones are extremely light in weight, but have the same strength as metals. At the same time, unlike carbon fiber materials, they are not only extremely rigid to forces in a specific direction.

Sun Hang tried to squeeze the removed plastic shell in his hand. After being deformed, the shell instantly returned to its original shape, and the material itself did not produce any cracks or stress whitening.

"This material is good." Sun Hang nodded, then threw the removed shell aside.

A stream of liquid metal slowly extended and wrapped up the drone's main body with its outer shell removed. After a while, a layer of transparent metal foil as thin as bubbles replaced the drone's original outer shell... Under the light, this layer of metal foil was flowing with colorful luster, and it looked like a piece of glass art.

Not only that, through this transparent metal foil shell, you can also see the precise mechanical structure and electronic components inside, which combines the beauty of art and technology in a very subtle way.

Not only was the outer shell replaced, but even the propeller blades and drive shaft of the drone were coated with a metal film of almost negligible thickness.

As for the antenna, it is replaced by four long metal needles that "grow" directly from the outer shell. Inside each long needle, there is a large number of dense honeycomb structures... It was hard for Liu Li to imagine that such a sophisticated structure was actually made by the guy in front of him "purely by hand" in just one minute without the help of any equipment or tools.

Could this be the ability he just mentioned...to manipulate metal?

"Alright." Sun Hang clapped his hands. "That should be enough... Actually, the weight problem is easy to solve. I just need to add an anti-gravity BUFF. But the problem is that this will turn this drone into an artifact-like weirdo... To be honest, it's a bit troublesome to change it to this without using memetic abilities."

"Are you sure... this drone can withstand radiation and interference?" "I think it can." Sun Hang gave Liu Li a thumbs up, "Anyway, we'll know after we try it."

Liu Li nodded woodenly, holding the drone that looked like a work of art, and carefully put it back into the box.

"Don't be so careful. This thing looks fragile, but it is actually very durable. Even if you hit it with a sledgehammer now, you can't make a few holes on its surface." Sun Hang said.

"how did you do it?"

"It would be a bit difficult for me to explain the principle behind this... I just compressed these metal materials and added forces in certain directions when shaping them so that they can support each other..." Sun Hang scratched his head and started to make up stories.

Of course, he didn't know exactly how he did it.

The ability to make your dreams come true is like an opaque "black box". Sun Hang simply inputs his needs into one end of the black box. As long as Sun Hang's "blue bar" can bear the consumption of the black box "operation", what falls out from the other end of the black box will naturally be something that can meet the needs that Sun Hang input at the beginning.

As for the process in between... don't ask, I just don't know.

"You mean the internal stress of the material?" Liu Li looked at the drone modified by Sun Hang with a strange look on his face. "No... stress is also a factor that engineers who design drones will consider. It is impossible to provide a strength far beyond the material's own limit by stress alone... Did you really not implant the weird meme into this drone?"

"If we can directly transform it into a monster, it won't be so troublesome." Sun Hang said.

Just when Liu Li was about to ask something, the pilot's voice suddenly rang out in the cabin: "Report to the commander, we have arrived at the designated airspace and are currently hovering over Bunker No. 2187 at a relative altitude of meters."

"We're here." Liu Li nodded. "All units will conduct the final equipment inspection according to the original plan. I will formulate the next detailed action plan based on the survey results of the drones and robots."

Liu Li glanced at Sun Hang and said, "It's time to verify the drone you modified."

……

Liu Li did not release four drones at once, but two drones - one was the "modified version of XLR05" that was brought out from the research institute intact, and the other was the "ultra-lightweight transparent shell XLR05" that had been modified by Sun Hang.

The rotors of the two drones spread out, and they flew out of the cabin almost at the same time and sank into the clouds below.

Liu Li stared at the computer screen without saying a word.

As the distance increased, the signal strength of the two drones decreased, but in comparison, the signal drop of the drone modified by Sun Hang was almost negligible.

The drone is now about 50 meters away from the helicopter. The signal strength of the original drone is less than % - Liu Li's original calculation result is roughly the same. At an altitude of meters, four drones, one every meters, can barely build a signal bridge from the ground to the helicopter...

But now, it seems that this plan can be abandoned.

The signal strength of the drone modified by Sun Hang can still be maintained at over 90%... Although the attenuation of the signal strength is nonlinear, at this strength, even if the drone is landed directly on the ground, Liu Li on the helicopter can still receive the drone's signal.

"It actually works?" Sun Hang glanced at the computer screen and muttered softly.

"Aren't you sure yourself?" asked the Crystal Princess in surprise.

"I only said that I think I can do it, but I didn't guarantee that it will work." Sun Hang said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Anjing, we're about to break through the clouds." Liu Li said, "We'll soon see what Bunker No. 1 looks like now."

As he was speaking, the drone had already broken through the clouds and rushed into the heavy rain.

The outline of Bunker No. 1 is marked with highlighted lines. Judging from the images taken by the drone, the external structure of Bunker No. 1 is intact and shows no signs of damage.

"It doesn't look like it's been attacked?" said the Crystal Princess.

"The fact that the bunker's exterior is intact doesn't prove that it has not been attacked," Liu Li said. "The drone didn't sense any life signals inside the bunker, which means that everyone inside the bunker has either been killed or has left the place."

"What about memes? Has the frequency of weird memes been detected?" Crystal Princess asked again.

"Of course there is." Liu Li shook his head helplessly. "Due to Chimera 17, the frequency of the weird meme can be detected anywhere in the restricted area... Using this method to search for hidden weird things will not work here."

"Ah...what should I do then?"

"Deploy the robots and let them enter the bunker." Liu Li said.

(End of this chapter)