reincarnation npc, but tomorrow's ark

No, or rather, for Bai Ye, this was actually a good opportunity. After all, being questioned by Madam Wen Yue would be a very troublesome matter.

Sometimes, excessive enthusiasm can be overwhelming and hard to handle. Although Madam Wenyue is usually a very virtuous and quiet elder, she changes her demeanor when it comes to matters concerning her two juniors, as if she has a completely different mindset.

She would keep asking Bai Ye all sorts of questions, and there was no way to stop her. Don't ask Bai Ye how she knew; it was all lessons learned from the past. As a result, Bai Ye would try his best to avoid Madam Wen Yue every time.

Moreover, especially after Bai Ye subtly expressed resistance regarding how to handle something between Talulah and Chen Huijie, Madam Wen Yue's attitude towards Bai Ye has changed.

This is also the most awkward part; Bai Ye never expected that the boomerang from before would attack him again.

So after hearing Lao Wei's words, Bai Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, Lady Wenyue is not here today.

Although Bai Ye was quite uncomfortable in front of Lao Wei, the two men were very tacit and did not choose to have an awkward discussion about titles and status.

Old Wei disdained to take advantage of Bai Ye in this way, which also relieved Bai Ye of some of the concerns that had been troubling him. After all, Bai Ye really didn't want to be inferior here for no reason.

……

"May your military fortune prosper." Wei Yanwu gave Bai Ye his final blessing. In truth, that was all he could do.

Bai Ye smiled and nodded:

"I'm sure I'll be fine."

Although this is somewhat like setting a flag, considering Bai Ye's strength, even if the buffs are fully stacked, he probably won't encounter any strange accidents.

Actually, Old Wei is a decent guy, but unfortunately, given his current position as the administrative head of Longmen, there are many things he wants to do but can't. Or rather, he can only act in secret, unable to speak openly, which has created a rift between him and his niece, Chen Huijie.

What Bai Ye didn't know was that the rift between the two would have been much deeper and wider, eventually leading Chen Huijie to resign from the Lungmen Guard Bureau in a fit of anger and choose to leave her hometown.

Therefore, if Talulah really has a child, she absolutely cannot entrust it to Lao Wei to take care of; that guy has absolutely no idea how to take care of a child.

-------------------------------------

With an unexpected gain, Bai Ye left Lao Wei's mansion.

However, before leaving Lungmen, Bai Ye had to go to the Lobotomy Institute to retrieve something.

Upon entering the Lobotomy Institute, Byakuya met his engineer, Ms. Yukichi.

These are outstanding researchers he recruited from Colombia, who are currently mainly responsible for the development of powered armor projects.

Although she has ample research funding and her salary has long been paid, Ms. Snow Chicks still retains many of the "bad habits" she developed when she was "frugal" in Colombia.

For example, at this very moment, when Bai Ye walked into Miss Xue Zhi's office, he was surprised to find that apart from a desk lamp and a terminal screen being lit, the rest of the place was dark.

As dusk settled, Miss Xuezhi worked tirelessly in her dimly lit office.

Those unaware of the situation might even suspect that Bai Ye is so stingy that he's reluctant to turn on the research institute's lighting system, yet he manages to squeeze money out of his employees even in such trivial matters.

However, it is clear that this matter has nothing to do with Bai Ye.

It wasn't until Bai Ye entered the office that Ms. Xuezhi, who had been startled, snapped out of her daze and hurriedly stood up to turn on the light.

"You know what I'm going to say, right?" Bai Ye rolled his eyes.

He had reminded them of this matter more than once. The Lobotomy Institute was well-funded; several derivative technologies from the power armor development process were already commercially viable, and they no longer needed Bai Ye to continue funding the institute. They were already self-sufficient.

Therefore, there is no need to save electricity by turning off the lights.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I just... it's a habit." Miss Yukichi lowered her head in embarrassment.

Although she is already at the supervisor level, she certainly doesn't look like one.

Just like now, it is indeed still quite immature.

Fortunately, Bai Ye didn't care about these minor issues; he only needed to get what he needed done.

Lungmen's Originium industry chain is very complete, much better than Chernobog's core city, so the things he needs can only be produced in Lungmen.

This even involved personal channels provided by Wei Yanwu. Bai Ye knew that the components of the equipment used by his "Shadow Guards," the mysterious black-clad warriors, were secretly supplied through these channels.

……

"That thing is ready."

In response to Bai Ye's question, Xue Zhi nodded.

She stood up, led Bai Ye to the elevator, and then tapped the control terminal inside the elevator. A moment later, a floor number that was not originally among the available options suddenly appeared.

After Snow Pheasant was selected, the elevator began to accelerate downwards.

"Good heavens, have you guys dug a hole through the underground of Lungmen?"

Bai Ye never expected that the plan he casually mentioned would actually be put into practice here.

"Commander Wei has provided great convenience for our activities and has also approved some of our development work on the Lungmen basic industrial layer, as long as we don't damage the industrial pipelines," Xuezhi explained.

As a result, some projects that need to be kept secret can be moved underground.

"Yes, but these basic industrial floors do sometimes need maintenance and repairs." Bai Ye looked at the old industrial floors passing through outside the elevator and couldn't help but sigh.

Any mobile city is the product of expansion and accumulation on the original foundation.

The higher you go, the newer it is; and the lower you go, the more parts of the city have existed since it was built.

For example, Lungmen existed before Wei Yanwu arrived, so some of its foundational layers are even older than Wei Yanwu himself. These older parts, though built using Terra's virtually bug-like materials science and engineering mechanics, are unlikely to have any problems, but they still require regular maintenance and upkeep.

Chapter 110 Big Toy

Lungmen does require regular maintenance, but the core city of Chernobog does not have such an urgent need for maintenance—although Chernobog is not a new city; it has been old and dilapidated in the past.

However, Marquis Boris, whom Bai Ye killed with a single sword strike, had already completely renovated the city during his modernization efforts.

More than 20 years ago, a small mining company under the Ursus Boris Group unearthed a set of peculiar equipment in the southern mountains.

This news quickly reached the ears of the group's leader, Marquis Boris. At that time, the Marquis made a bold choice: he attempted to build a fully-equipped industrial city in order to break free from dependence on military-controlled mining and military production.

That thing is the sarcophagus, and it was because of that thing that Bai Ye decided to choose Chernobog's core city as the target of the Reunion Movement. During the process of placing the sarcophagus into the city's core, the entire city was almost completely reshaped. Therefore, the city does not currently require major repairs.

Actually, Bai Ye's thoughts about Chernobog's history weren't really because he was considering whether to overhaul the entire city. He was actually thinking about the sarcophagus.

Ever since he and Talulah gained actual control of the entire core city, Bai Ye has begun research on the sarcophagus.

The area where the sarcophagus was located was designated as a restricted zone, and a research institute was established. Later, it received assistance from Kal'tsit in terms of personnel and theoretical support—research on the sarcophagus was one of the main demands that White Night made of Rhodes Island.

However, more than a year has passed, and there has been little progress in the research on the stone coffin. Apart from a slight increase in the energy output threshold, there has been almost no breakthrough.

Bai Ye suspected that this was because Dr. Kal'tsit was hiding something, deliberately delaying or even hindering Bai Ye's research on the sarcophagus. She seemed unwilling for Bai Ye to achieve any groundbreaking results with this device.

However, she wasn't entirely inactive; at the very least, she provided a continuous supply of clean energy—enough to fill the entire city, even overflowing it. This energy would have been sufficient to power a giant industrial mobile city in the past.

After losing all other plots of land, Bai Ye even had to reduce the output power of the stone coffin, otherwise a single core city would not be able to absorb so much energy.

Thanks to the sarcophagus, the core city, which had almost lost the support of its industrial system, once again developed at an incredible speed. The sarcophagus was the city's greatest asset in its resurgence. Even without breakthroughs in research, the energy supplied by the sarcophagus was so immense that Bai Ye was now researching a weapon to release the excess energy.

But Bai Ye was not satisfied with this. What he really wanted was the truth about the stone coffin. He wanted to know what the truth was behind this relic left behind by a pre-civilization.

However, Dr. Kal'tsit was silently hindering Bai Ye from continuing his exploration. Bai Ye didn't confront her directly, as he didn't have the extra time to delve deeper into the sarcophagus and the secrets of the previous civilization.

Bai Ye plans to dedicate time to studying and resolving his doubts and curiosities after completing his mission.

What Bai Ye didn't know was that the things you take for granted are the ones that will most likely jump out and appear in your face. He also couldn't have predicted that one day, during a trip to Colombia, a large group of sarcophagi would spontaneously appear in front of him.

Of course, this is something.

……

After leaving the stone coffin, Bai Ye's thoughts quickly returned. Only then did he realize that he and Xue Zhi had passed through the ancient body of the Dragon Gate and entered the "underground" of the mobile city.

Here, everything that Bai Ye needed had been prepared.

That was the purpose of his trip.

The things located underground at the Lobotomy Institute were indeed not dangerous. Bai Ye neither secretly conducted biological experiments underground nor, as the name "Lobotomy" suggests, secretly contained "abnormalities."

However, the things Bai Ye secretly created down there were also incredibly cool.

“Mr. Baiye, she is ready.”

As Xuezhi spoke, she opened the containment box in front of her, and a tall power armor appeared in front of Baiye.

No, actually, at this height, it could be considered a small mecha, since it's nearly three meters tall, easily exceeding the height of a single-story building.

If Melantha's power armor looked incredibly light, then the armor standing before Bai Ye at this moment was as heavy and powerful as a mountain.

Looking up at the terrifying behemoth born from the combination of Originium Industries and the concept of futuristic power armor, Bai Ye nodded in satisfaction.

This is the big toy that he notified the Lobotomy Institute a month ago to work on.

This thing is custom-made because no one other Terran could possibly be capable of wearing and piloting this power armor.

This is the "armor" that Bai Ye specially prepared so that Bozokasti could enter Victoria and Lontinim.

Yes, the massive killing machine that appears to ordinary people as an apocalyptic destruction device is actually a specially designed disguise armor to delay the exposure of Big Daddy's identity.

Of course, Bai Ye wouldn't just apply the "newspaper brat" to Big Daddy. His requirements were that the power armor must be able to withstand Big Daddy's power output, while its defensive capabilities must exceed those of the original armor he was wearing.

"Commander Wei Yanwu's support was almost entirely used on this giant toy..." Xue Zhi said with some regret, "Who exactly is this thing for? With this kind of internal design, ordinary people simply can't use it..."

At the time, she was only responsible for leading the manufacturing according to Bai Ye's requirements, and did not continue to question Bai Ye's intentions. She is just a little curious now.

"Ordinary people have no use for this. This thing is for controlling monsters." Bai Ye looked up at the behemoth in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

If Big Daddy were to fight, he would have to use his magic, which would exacerbate his Oripathy, eventually turning him into an Originium crystal. Therefore, White Night needed to ensure that Big Daddy possessed sufficient combat power without using his magic.

This is the second purpose of the power armor: besides camouflage and protection, it also limits Big Daddy's combat capabilities.

If power armor is used to compensate for the output, then Big Daddy himself won't need to exert too much effort to maintain his own physical health.

Chapter 111 Created a Boss

"Boss, please take it away quickly, this thing is too scary." Xuezhi shook her head with a troubled expression.

Bai Ye found it somewhat amusing. Looking at the young girl before him, he couldn't help but ask:

"Do you engineers really fear the creations you yourselves have made?"

"Well..." Xuezhi also found it a bit hard to explain. She organized her thoughts and then slowly said, "It's mainly because it looks a bit too scary. Every time I think about a huge guy quietly hiding under our feet, I'm afraid it will move on its own."

She paused, then added somewhat shyly:

"Actually, I wasn't that scared at first. Like you said, who would be deliberately afraid of something they created themselves? However, one night while I was on duty, I had a nightmare about a super robot causing havoc in Lungmen. Since then, I've been too scared to come and see this thing alone."

Perhaps it was because Snow Chick had read novels or watched anime about Skynet and Omnic Crisis in Columbia, and was also influenced by the player's "cultural invasion of another world," that the little girl subconsciously developed some fantasies and worries that would not normally exist.

However, with Bai Ye by her side, Miss Xuezhi wasn't so afraid anymore. She even reached out and tapped the leg shell of the power armor. At the little girl's height, she only reached the leg level of this thing.

"Do you think it would have been cool if I had worn this thing out on Requiem Night?" Bai Ye suddenly had a whimsical idea.

Miss Snow Pheasant chuckled:

"Too bad, boss, you can't wear it at all."

Clearly, the interior of this giant toy is not designed according to the normal human body structure. The reason for its enormous size is largely due to the extremely large capacity of its internal cockpit.

The increased gaps, coupled with a more powerful output, a more robust force feedback drive, and thicker armor, make this thing look very "robust," although Miss Snow Pheasant finds it quite frightening.

However, Bai Ye was captivated by this technological marvel born from the fusion of Originium Industries, the cutting-edge power armor design concept, and the deep-sea technology provided by Goredia.

"Then I'll take it with me."

Bai Ye was very satisfied with the toys provided by Miss Snow Pheasant.

"Please wait a moment, we also have containment cabinets ready." Snow Chick said, pointing to the huge box that occupied another corner.

"The front is a simple work area for storage, resupply, and maintenance, while the cabinets in the back contain ammunition supplies and spare modules."

Although it was custom-made, considering that Big Daddy might engage in an all-out battle beyond his specifications, the power armor is likely to suffer irreversible major structural damage. In that case, repairs alone might not be enough.

Therefore, the entire power armor adopts a modular design, and most components can be disassembled and replaced.

Due to its enormous size and status as a massive metal behemoth, a single power backpack was insufficient. Two additional thrusters were added to the rear of the power armor, and similar propulsion devices were also installed on its feet, making it purely a matter of sheer power.

"The optical cloaking materials obtained from Reunion are ready, as are the small cloaking devices manufactured according to your magical principles. However, due to the excessive size of the machine, there is no place to mount the cloaking devices, so we can only use an external attachment method."

As Xuezhi spoke, she pointed to the huge cloak-like object on the other side of the box.

It was an external power armor component created by combining the invisibility spell that allowed White Night to release the Wind King Barrier, the optical camouflage spell of Sasha (Faust), a cadre of the Reunion Movement, and optical invisibility materials from Columbia Laboratories.

Its main purpose is to hide such a big thing.

After all, Big Daddy was already very conspicuous and his features were too obvious. Although he put on power armor to hide his identity as a pure-blooded Wendigo, this big toy obviously became even more conspicuous.