(Yizui is not belittling AS, but is there really anything special about the AS that appeared before the Arbalest? Even the performance of the Arbalest in the animation is not ridiculously strong. The subsequent units are another matter. , when the world plot has been completely changed, the follow-up machine of the Arbalest has not been developed at all. Even if other forces study λ-DRIVER, it will not be the Mithril in this plot. In addition, there is an issue with the number of third-generation machines. , the animation also seems to have mentioned the cost of AS. The protagonist will also have other participants developing it when he is leisurely. Should Luo be allowed to provide technical support and not other participants also be allowed to provide technical support? This is Yizui Zao It’s been arranged, and a big OSS has been set up in this plot from the beginning.)
The meeting place of the Armistice Agreement was determined to be another big country that also did not really participate in the war, Australia, a country in the sea with countless kangaroos. The inexplicable war started and ended inexplicably under the restrictions of neutron jammers. For this time Armistice Agreement Almost all countries in the world sent their own missions to the Australian city of Sydney.
In addition to signing an armistice agreement, these countries also hope to get an answer from Xiao Ran during this meeting as to whether nuclear energy will be permanently sealed or when it will be reactivated.
For some small countries that have small-scale nuclear energy and even need to purchase AS from other countries and cannot possess nuclear weapons, they wish that nuclear energy would be sealed forever. For those countries with extremely high demand for nuclear energy, nuclear energy The seal was already a strain on them.
On the Japanese side, in addition to Xiao Ran and the others taking the Son of Danu, there was also a delegation heading directly out of nowhere, and their arrival speed was much faster than the people on the Son of Danu. The mission had already arrived before the Son of Slave had covered half the distance.
As for Xiao Ran and others, they headed slowly and unhurriedly on the Son of Danu. Xiao Ran could be sure that this meeting would not be as calm and peaceful as it seemed, and the atmosphere on the ship was therefore more tense.
Xiao Ran, who had been staying in the Son of Danu, was bored and wandered for a while, and then walked into the Gnaku. At this time, a group of technicians in the Gnaku, led by Luo, were surrounding a few aircraft. Transformed fighter planes with standard weapons are busy.
Sosuke Sagara, Cruze, Melissa Mao and other five Mithril pilots were sitting in the cockpit of the aircraft, making various actions in the cockpit according to the orders of the aircraft adjuster. Through feedback and calculation, each parameter of the body is adjusted more specifically, so that the body can be more in line with the control of people like them.
However, because these pilots who drive AS have long been accustomed to the driving method of AS, the manual control and motion-assisted driving method will expose various problems if they are suddenly switched to the deformed fighter. For this reason, Luo had to follow the AS The cockpit of these people made appropriate improvements to the cockpit of the aircraft body, and installed the same motion auxiliary equipment as the AS, and they were able to successfully fly the transforming fighter aircraft like flying the AS.
At the same time, a co-pilot was also added to each main division, a co-pilot who is better at flying. Almost all of them are orthodox pilots. They are used to assist flight control in fighter mode, balance assistance in fortress mode, etc. Waiting for work, while combat matters such as aiming and shooting are still carried out by the main engineer himself.
This situation also led to the transformation of the fighter planes flown by Sosuke Sagara and others. In addition to being able to exert full combat power in the mobile suit form, the fighter plane form is basically only used for running and rushing, but it can be done in the fortress form. Assault actions such as moving and sliding attacks are impossible and impossible for a pilot like Xiao Ran, but at least it can bring out the combat effectiveness of the transforming fighter to a greater extent than driving an AS.
This is still the situation encountered by battle-hardened mercenaries like the Son of Danu. The several aircraft currently delivered to Japan are mostly used for decoration and deterrence. In terms of the combat effectiveness they can exert, , even slightly worse than those of Mithril.
Only two pilots can conduct a single operation. The air combat pilot is responsible for the air combat, and the ground combat is responsible for the AS pilot. In the fortress form, one controls the flight and the other controls the attack. There is not much hope for special operations, and there is only Only after it reaches a certain scale can its true combat capability be demonstrated.
Xiao Ran walked to Gnakuli and did not disturb these busy people. He just watched quietly from the side. It was not until Luo gave a thumbs up to the technicians that he noticed that Xiao Ran had been standing beside him for a long time. , while wiping his head with a clean towel, he walked towards Xiao Ran.
Xiao Ran nodded to Luo, then looked at several transforming fighters, and asked: "How is it? To what extent can it be used after adjustments?"
"It's not bad. You can always do more when driving a transforming fighter than flying an AS. Even if you can only fight in the fortress form and MS form, it's enough for them." Luo wiped his face. , put a towel around his neck and said: "A drill test will be arranged for them in an hour. Do you want to personally guide them?"
"A test?" Xiao Ran thought for a moment, and finally shook his head: "Forget it, there is no need for it for the time being, let's let Elf train them more cruelly while there are still a few days left in the meeting."
"That's right, if you are regarded as a test target, it will be too demotivating for them." Luo laughed, as if he suddenly thought of something, patted his head and said to Xiao Ran: "Where are Elf and the captain?" It seems that some information has been discovered, and it is being confirmed now. It seems to be related to amalgam. You'd better go and take a look and maybe you can find something."
Xiao Ran suddenly turned to look at Luo, frowned and said, "When did it happen?"
"Not long ago, the young captain originally arranged an exercise here, and then he was called back to the bridge." Luo scratched his hair and said: "But it seems to be related to something that happened a long time ago. It’s related to the matter under investigation.”
Xiao Ran nodded, feeling a little strange in his heart as to what Tessa had been investigating, and she never told him about it.
After saying goodbye to Luo, Xiao Ran went directly to the bridge of the battleship. Tessa was sitting on the captain's seat in the bridge, while Elf took the place of one of the staff members and kept typing on the keyboard. The big screen Pictures are displayed one after another and are constantly switching.
Xiao Ran looked up and saw that most of those pictures were of factories and production lines producing the Soviet third-generation AS. The dates on the pictures were basically a month before the neutron jammer was activated. In addition to these pictures of factories and production lines, there are also photos of several people, most of which were taken from a distance.
Xiao Ran saw someone he also knew in one of the photos. He had the same silver hair as Tessa, a face that was almost the same as Tessa but looked more distinct and tough, and a young man wearing a black windbreaker.
After seeing the man's photo, Xiao Ran also reflexively looked at Tessa beside him, with a look of surprise, loss, pain and sadness on her face.
"Reynard?" Xiao Ran narrowed his eyes slightly. This young boy, who was only sixteen or seventeen years old like Tessa, was the only person in Xiao Ran's world who was willing to turn him into his follower. , a pilot with excellent AS driving skills, who can develop advanced AS, small AS, Whisperer with considerable technical ability, a person in this world who has similar abilities to Luo to some extent. .
Someone who also knows how to fight and has superb combat ability, who also understands technology and has excellent technical ability, a person who has an excellent mentality and a good intelligence, is completely in line with Xiao Ran's choice, and can adapt to the mission of Prometheus.
In the photo where Leonard appears, a young man in his mid-twenties wearing a white coat with his hands in his pockets is standing next to him. The two of them seem to be communicating with each other, and In front of the two of them, there was a scene of huge containers being loaded into large transport aircraft one after another.
At the same time, there were also some public faces guarding with weapons in the photo, as well as two small ASs who were always protecting Leonard. However, Xiao Ran was more attracted by the young man in the white coat. s eyes.
Xiao Ran suddenly asked: "Who is this?"
"My brother..." Tessa lowered her head and replied in a low voice: "The twin brother, the brother who joined the amalgam in an attempt to start a world war."
Xiao Ran paused and patted Tessa lightly on the shoulder: "Of course I know that the silver-haired one is your brother, Leonard the Whisperer, and I have information about him. Besides, you guys look the same, even if you are a fool, It can be seen that I am asking another person, who is the guy in a white coat who looks like a technician."
"Ah!" Tessa raised her head and glanced at Xiao Ran blankly. Then she realized that she had mistaken the subject of Xiao Ran's question. Her face turned slightly red and she said embarrassedly: "Now I only know that this person should be called Taitai." Lot, used to be a mercenary, but now works as a technician under my brother."
Elf stood up from his chair, walked to Xiao Ran's side, and explained the specific situation to Xiao Ran in more detail: "Because of problems with the third generation AS, Captain Tessa and Mithril started to Investigating the origin of the third-generation AS is of course aimed at the Soviet side."
"Although it seems to us that with the energy of the cooperation between the Soviet Union and Amalgam, it is not surprising that more third-generation ASs with λ-DRIVER can be produced, but from Mithril's point of view, the number of third-generation ASs that have appeared is really Too much of this is abnormal. When both the Soviet Union and the United States, the more advanced United States, are unable to mass-produce the third-generation AS, the Soviet-made third-generation AS has already begun mass production and has obtained a certain amount. , the location of the factory where the technology comes from has become the information that Mithril needs to investigate most.”
"Although we obtained some intelligence later, we did not obtain the true source of these equipment and technologies. It was not until today that we determined where the source of technical support and equipment support received from the Soviet Union was. It was the two people in the photo. One of them, Leonard, is a senior cadre of Amalgam, owns the research institute and execution force, and is one of the most powerful and powerful people in Amalgam."
"The second, Teterote, is currently the head of the research institution under Leonard. He should have provided the third-generation AS mass production technology of the Soviet Union and Amalgam as the leader. According to analysis, it should be a He is a person with very excellent technical ability, and at the same time, according to the opponent's original identity as a mercenary, the time when he appeared next to Leonard was quite coincidental, I think you should have some guesses about this."
"A participant, a participant with excellent technology."
Xiao Ran raised his eyebrows. There were too few participants in Prometheus who understood technology, and there were even fewer participants who had the ability to lead technology development. They were just like giant pandas. He cherished it, but he didn't expect that such a participant would appear in front of him now, and he was still standing in the opposite camp to himself.
A participant who knew the technology of other worlds joined Leonard's command, and appeared beside Leonard at the beginning of this mission. From that time on, he became responsible for Leonard's subordinate research institutions. Technology development, at this point alone, is ahead of the progress of Luo joining Mithril to develop the body.
What's more, Luo also hid a lot of tricks in developing new machines in Mithril. The more important purpose is just to help Xiao Ran create a body that can fight. There are hardly many ways to improve Mithril's overall technical strength. To be truly comprehensive, The improvement of technology was only done after Atshin Hayashi and others took control of the entire Japan. From one point of view, it fell even further behind.
The current situation is that Xiao Ran has no idea what technology the other party has mastered. After providing technical support for the mass-produced third-generation AS, what kind of thing was produced in Leonard's research institution? A participant , is still a skilled participant. Just from looking at Luo, you can know that the opponent may not be that easy to deal with.
A participant is not scary, nor is a mere technician. What is scary is that a participant who has experienced three worlds, mastered different technologies in the three worlds, and has a fighting ability that exceeds that of ordinary newcomers, is also a fundamental person. For participants who don’t know their trump cards, since the other party has been staying in the research institution, it means that the other party may not have appeared in the previous chaos at all. Even if they want to collect more information about the other party, they will not get any useful information at all. For the super system, the unknown is the truly scary thing.
Xiao Ran's brows wrinkled slightly. Xiao Ran really didn't pay attention to the abnormal number of third-generation ASs. In his opinion, since some execution troops have been equipped with third-generation ASs, even if the Soviet Union produced It is normal for more third-generation ordinary AS, but I did not expect that this is not normal.
After groaning, Xiao Ran turned to look at Tessa and asked softly: "Why haven't you told me about this before?"
"We didn't expect that the Soviet Union's third-generation AS technology was supported by amalgam. So many things happened next, and we forgot about it." Tessa looked at Xiao Ran's frown. , I suddenly became alert and asked: "Isn't it just the mass production of the third generation AS? Are there other situations?"