Back in the room, Jiang Chen closed the door.
A jade-like hand rested on his waist.
Feeling the coolness, Jiang Chen smiled and gently squeezed Liu Yao's hand.
"You're not coming?"
"Can you handle it?" Looking at her bright eyes, Jiang Chen had a smirk on his face.
Thinking about how she begged him last night, Liu Yao's face turned red, but she pretended to be calm.
"I can handle it-"
"But compared to handling it, I appreciate your joyful expression more."
Liu Yao pouted and lowered her head as a trace of being touched appeared on her face.
"Thank you."
"Rest early tonight, it was quite tiring in the afternoon." Jiang Chen combed the hair in front of Liu Yao's forehead as he smiled.
"Mhmm." With tears in her eyes, Liu Yao nodded.
Half of it was because of the money, and the other half was because of the person. Regardless, she did love him. Although she knew Jiang Chen only treated her as a lover, she didn't mind.
She knew that his acceptance of her had nothing to do with love. It could even be out of remembrance for the past, or to make up for something that was lost. That day at the artificial lake at Wanghai University, she wore a milky white dress and appeared in front of him as a student. From the way he looked at her, she could read the meaning behind it.
But none of that was important. If they were just lovers, she could still feel his gentleness.
The only thing that scared her was that deep in his heart, he only treated her as a tool to satisfy his lust.
Fortunately, he didn't seem to be like that …
…
After showering, the two went to sleep.
At around midnight, Jiang Chen opened his eyes.
The sound of breathing was steady. Because she used up too much energy during the day, Liu Yao was in a deep sleep.
He quietly got out of bed, put on a shirt, walked into the bathroom, locked the door, and activated interdimensional travel.
The mansion was quiet. Sun Jiao and the others were probably asleep.
Without waking them up, Jiang Chen put on a thick winter coat. Standing at the entrance of the living room, he adjusted to the sudden change in temperature. Then, he pushed open the door of the mansion and walked into the snowy night.
Although it was already late at night, the base was still brightly lit.
Under the falling snow, the orange light from the factory's windows could not be covered, and the faint rumbling of the workshop could be heard. Outdated production equipment could only be supplemented by manpower. The crude production line could only be operated by the willpower of the workers who worked in shifts.
However, no one complained because this was the wasteland. Being able to eat and wear warm clothes and have the opportunity to work was already an extravagant hope.
The highly intelligent and unmanned factories before the war were basically turned into ruins in the nuclear explosion. Although Jiang Chen had thought about sending some people to the factory ruins to "pick up the trash," he had to give up on the idea since it had been more than ten years since the apocalypse.
All the good things that could be looted had probably already been plundered.
From time to time, snowplowing vehicles that had been modified from vans would pass by the base, and armed sentries would patrol in formation.
After seeing Jiang Chen, the sentinel leader quickly stood at attention and took the lead to salute the general.
"Don't mind me, just keep patrolling." Jiang Chen smiled at the young man whose nose was red from the cold.
"Yes!" The young man's face was flushed as he raised his head and saluted again before he led the soldiers behind him forward.
On the young man's chest, Jiang Chen saw a bright gold medal.
He just remembered that he seemed to have appointed more than two hundred knights in the base. These knights who were absolutely loyal to him were the first batch of slaves bought from the Sixth Street. They were the pioneers who planted the first shovel in this wasteland. Now, these pioneers were all promoted by Jiang Chen to be the backbone of the base, serving as managers or officers.
The people following behind the young knight should be upper citizens, although they weren't implanted with slavery chips. But from the pairs of eyes, Jiang Chen still saw a strong sense of respect and admiration.
"Is it already starting to take shape?" Standing in the snow, Jiang Chen looked around the territory under his rule as a smile appeared on his face.
As the Fishbone base began to take shape, the base that Jiang Chen regarded as the base already began to expand to the fourth area. A new residential area meant that new immigrants could be recruited. Including the survivors from Shenxiang Town, the population of the Fishbone base was close to one thousand people.
But the development here was almost at a bottleneck. The materials collected by the scavenging team were not enough to satisfy the appetite of the industrial behemoth. Only by establishing a base in the modern world could he bring tons of iron, aluminum, and even rare earth ores to the apocalypse.
Jiang Chen paused for a moment before he walked to Jiang Lin's aerospace laboratory in the corner of the base.
Standing at the door, he pressed the doorbell, put his face close to the camera, and said concisely.
"It's me."
Soon, the door lock made a "click" sound.
He pushed open the door and the cold wind mixed with snowflakes swept into the room. But soon, the snow on the carpet melted into crystal water droplets by the heater in the room.
Jiang Chen closed the door and hung his winter suit on the hook before he walked into the room.
"It's so late, I thought the kinetic skeleton production line had an accident." Jiang Lin, in his pajamas, yawned as he walked downstairs with his messy hair.
Parts were scattered everywhere, making it hard to stand in the living room on the first floor. However, this sleepy guy easily passed through the pile of broken parts and didn't even step on a screw.
It could be seen that this guy had reached a certain level of otaku.
"These are?" Jiang Chen pointed at the pile of parts and blueprints on the ground, confused.
Jiang Lin pulled out a chair for Jiang Chen and sat on the other chair. "The K1-b kinetic skeleton you asked me to study … Seriously, is this thing really necessary?"
The K1-b kinetic skeleton was an improved version of the K1. While maintaining the existing protection capabilities, a pressure protection layer was installed all over the body to resist the water pressure. At the same time, the slot on the mobile armor on the back was changed to a ring-mounted load bar, which was used to place the "cylinder" that integrated the underwater thruster and the oxygen storage device.
This thing was obviously not meant for use in the apocalypse, but Jiang Chen didn't plan to explain too much to him. Instead, he asked about the development progress.
"Can this thing be used now?"
"Probably not. Considering that the radiation in natural water is over the limit, we need to add a layer of heavy metal organic material in the pressure resistance layer —" Jiang Lin was prepared to explain from a technical perspective, but he was mercilessly interrupted by Jiang Chen, who didn't understand at all.
"Let's put the radiation problem aside for now. Other than adding that material, is this thing done?" There was no radiation in the modern world's water, so adding the anti-radiation material was unnecessary.
"The design is done, and all the parts have been sampled. We just need to assemble it, and it should be ready to use." Jiang Lin hesitated for a moment before he nodded.
"Then can you help me make a set of samples now? That should be no problem, right?"
"No problem, but the performance parameters haven't been collected yet. Is it really okay to use it right away?"
"Actual combat is the best way to test the equipment." Jiang Chen smiled.
"Okay." Jiang Lin didn't try to convince Jiang Chen anymore as he shrugged and walked to the workbench.
The K1-b kinetic skeleton was much bulkier than the K1 prototype. Because of the consideration that the amphibious equipment would be active underwater, the originally removable polyethylene bulletproof plate was secured to prevent water from seeping through the gaps.
Other than that, Jiang Lin also designed a heavy helmet for the armor.
Just from the shape alone, the kinetic skeleton covered every part of the body with a pressure resistance material. Other than the lack of a turbine engine, heavy metal armor, and high technology like a neural interface computer, this set of equipment was similar to a power armor. For comparison, it was somewhere between "light infantry armor" and "heavy cavalry armor." The cost was a bit more than three times the cost of the K1 prototype.
"The propulsion device on the back, in order to charge the oxygen storage device, you only need to connect the port to the air. It can be fully charged in about an hour and can be used for three hours. "Jiang Lin pushed up his glasses as he explained the equipment he designed to Jiang Chen.
[Automatically replenishing oxygen? Fu * k, how insane is this?]
Listening to Jiang Lin's explanation, Jiang Chen was speechless.
"During a firefight, be careful not to get hit by the breathing apparatus on the back of the neck. Of course, it doesn't make a difference if your head explodes."
"Is the helmet not bulletproof?" Jiang Chen knocked on the helmet as he felt the unique organic material.
"For underwater equipment, I must control the overall density of the equipment. The main bulletproof ability is concentrated on the chest and abdomen. Of course, the helmet should be able to block one or two shots, but I don't mind you trying. With the kinetic energy of the Reaper rifle, even if the helmet can block one shot, most people's cervical vertebrae would not be able to withstand the pressure. Since this is not a power armor, "Jiang Lin shrugged.
"What about this? Pistol? "Jiang Chen picked up a weapon with a strange barrel.
"That's right, but it's for underwater use."
"Type 11 pistol doesn't work? I remember that this thing has quite a bit of momentum. "Jiang Chen held the gun in his hand and played with it for a while. He felt that it was very strange to the touch.
Jiang Lin paused for a moment as he looked at Jiang Chen strangely.
"The higher the muzzle velocity of the bullet, the shorter the distance it travels in the water. Even if the bullets in the base are steel core bullets, they wouldn't be crushed by the water pressure, but they would start to roll after a few meters, right? "
The more powerful the bullet, the closer it hits? How is that possible?!
"But I've seen it in the movies-" Jiang Chen was dumbfounded.
In his mind, the scene of the machine guns forming a web of bullets in the water seemed to be quite common in war movies.
"That is a movie." Jiang Lin smiled as he handed a box of thick bullets to Jiang Chen. "You might as well use a laser gun instead of a Type 11. Although the energy of the laser is reduced in a light dense medium, it can still hit farther than a light weapon. "
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