Chapter 35: Fully Armed and Returning
“Isn’t this stuff a bit too much?”
Zheng Zha watched Chu Xuan continuously pull equipment from his spatial bag, his mouth twitching.
“It’s a good thing to be armed to the teeth!”
Zhan Lan curiously fiddled with a silver-grey exoskeleton armor. “Is this a military exoskeleton? How do I put it on…?”
“This is the CN171 military exoskeleton. Originally, it used a graphene shell and wave-pressure thruster devices, conforming to ergonomics and bionics, effectively reducing the burden of soldier movement. The reason it’s silver-grey… is because I used alchemy to plate a layer of 【Vessel Steel】 on its surface.”
Chu Xuan calmly explained, “First, put on the thermal suit. The thermal suit has corresponding sensor devices. Once your waist aligns with the exoskeleton, it can automatically suit up within ten seconds. After wearing it, maneuverability, personal strength, and load capacity are all greatly increased, with a total pulling force of about 1-2 tons.”
“It comes with a back-mounted weapon rack. Besides a Gauss Rifle and Monomolecular Sword, the waist has a rotatable heavy weapon rack that can bring a six-barrel Gatling machine gun to the front, with a magazine capacity of six thousand rounds.”
“Since Zheng Zha needs to use a Symbiote in combat, the exoskeleton temporarily cannot adapt to your fighting style and physique. When necessary, you can tap the buttons on both sides of the waist to detach it. Tapping one side is a normal detachment, while tapping both sides simultaneously will quickly detonate the battery for self-destruction after detachment, with an Explosion power equivalent to a grenade.”
“In short… these are relatively cheap consumables. Even if they are damaged, I still have many here.”
“Hiss…”
Zheng Zha gasped, checking the item details, and found that this thing cost a whopping 600 reward points per unit! And it required the use of 【High Fission Batteries】 purchased from the Main God!
Now, they could actually get them for free and waste them!
“The Monomolecular Sword and High-Frequency Blade are good stuff.”
Fang Ge stated that in the early stages, technological weapons were the most cost-effective.
“The Monomolecular Sword’s blade has molecular-level cutting ability, causing the molecules contacted by the blade to disintegrate, creating an effect similar to ‘ignoring defense cutting’.”
“When the High-Frequency Blade is swung, the blade itself produces visible high-frequency vibrations. The entire blade is its killing range. The principle is to vibrate the particles of the object being cut. Cutting metal is effortless, and it can even extend an air blade several meters long, possessing extremely powerful killing range.”
Even a Tyrant, facing such a powerful weapon, would be chopped to pieces like cutting vegetables.
Of course, Gauss pistols, sniper rifles, and automatic rifles were also devastating to Tyrants.
“Looking back now, why do I feel like the Umbrella Corporation is so trashy?”
Zheng Zha was undoubtedly feeling overconfident. And why not? Anyone who saw such an armed force would feel overconfident.
In the past few days, after Chu Xuan backed up a sufficient amount of T-Virus original solution, Zheng Zha successfully completed his T-Virus enhancement and obtained his Gene Lock.
Moreover, as a natural unlocker, he quickly caught up, adapting to this ability even better than Zhan Lan.
“There has actually been a breakthrough in the research of Symbiotes. In fact, with the help of the fatal fruit and the nutrient solution prepared according to the medicinal bath formula, I have completed the ‘splitting’ experiment.” Chu Xuan’s words were shocking.
As he spoke, he took out several tight-fitting battle suits of different colors—they looked very similar to the Black Spider Suit from Spider-Man 3.
“Gulp…”
Zheng Zha swallowed, unable to help but ask, “Have you really succeeded in creating new Symbiotes so quickly? Then can’t we mass-produce B-rank enhancements?”
“No, the experiment was not entirely successful. Although accelerated metabolism and sufficient energy can indeed speed up the Symbiote’s splitting cycle, allowing it to complete multiple divisions in a short time…”
Chu Xuan indicated that Zheng Zha was thinking too optimistically.
“The Symbiote born from this kind of splitting is a defective product. To some extent, it violates the Symbiote’s biological instinct, so it cannot reproduce normally… or perhaps I haven’t fully understood it.”
“In short, I have only created a type of ‘Symbiote battle suit’ that can strengthen the physical body. It has low mass, no consciousness, cannot deform, and only has weak healing abilities.”
“Wearing it can increase four physical attributes by about 100 points. Since it also cannot feed itself, it can only draw nutrients from the host, so the host must have sufficient energy reserves. Without enough basic metabolic capacity, one might be drained dry.”
Chu Xuan listed a long string of disadvantages of this battle suit, but in Fang Ge’s eyes, none of these were disadvantages.
Although Chu Xuan’s “might be drained dry” was roughly equivalent to “might be drained to death”…
He said nonchalantly, “You just need to say how much research funding these things cost… As long as the price is cheap, what more can we ask for?”
Chu Xuan pushed up his glasses and replied, “The expenditure on this one item alone… including the fatal fruit, should have reached 3000 reward points, and only five were produced.”
“Six hundred points? What more could we want! You demand too much of yourself!”
Zheng Zha had thought his estimated cost was already low enough, but he never expected it to be this low!
“Six hundred points, even if I’m drained dry by the suit, I’ll accept it!”
Zhan Lan took two Symbiote battle suits. She and her bodyguard each took one.
Speaking of which, Fang Ge had given her the Sunflower Manual, so she naturally created a Yu Huatian eunuch.
But unfortunately, it would take a very long time for a created human to learn the Sunflower Manual… Perhaps if they got the Umbrella Corporation’s cloning and memory implantation technology, everything would get better.
As for Chu Xuan… according to him, he created a research assistant, but it never appeared and showed no intention of being a “combat unit.”
—Could it be that he’s already put it in a bio-pod for biological experiments?
Fang Ge didn’t know, but it sounded very much like something Chu Xuan would do. He might even go on to study the differences between “Main God created humans,” “normal humans,” and “normal clones.”
It was only because the original Ah Nuo was sent away by him very early on that he didn’t waste reward points on such research.
“When I have money, I’ll reimburse you for these twelve hundred points…”
“Just buy research materials and team supplies. Chu Xuan will give you the list then.”
Fang Ge didn’t want the team to be too clear about the accounts. This was not conducive to his future coordination of the team’s resources.
If everyone’s enhancements had to be limited to their own gains, then how could they maximize their strength? How could they speedrun?
Now that the team was just formed, it was time to set the rules!
As for individuals? These were all his, Fang Ge’s, reward points. For you NPCs to live and get stronger, it’s all the players’ “grace”!
—You can never repay my “kindness” in your lifetime. Just be “loyal” and that’s it!
Fang Ge, Jin Xi, Zheng Zha, Chu Xuan, Zhan Lan, Yu Huatian.
There were a total of six combat units, all using the Symbiote battle suit as an inner layer, the thermal suit as an outer layer, and the CN171 military exoskeleton as armor.
Each person was equipped with a Monomolecular Sword, a High-Frequency Blade, and carried multiple electromagnetic grenades and flashbangs.
Relying on tactical goggles and ear-muff communicators, plus everyone’s excellent physical fitness, the use of flashbangs could be a bit more “reckless.”
As for firearms, they chose them according to their preferences. For example, Zheng Zha particularly liked dual-wielding M4-shaped Gauss rifles…
According to him, a real man should dual-wield M4s…
—Then how do you reload?
Fang Ge didn’t know. Anyway, Zheng Zha’s shooting skills were nothing special. In critical moments, guns could only provide some “emotional value.”
“Everyone.”
Fang Ge saw that everyone was ready and began his leadership speech:
“Block out noise, keep a low profile, help each other… Remember our goal is to ‘end Resident Evil,’ not just simply complete the plot of Resident Evil 2!”
“Take down this world. This is just the beginning. We will take down every world from now on!”
“I think it’s better to say something like ‘come back alive’…” Zheng Zha kissed Loli’s forehead, indicating that he would definitely come back alive.
“You don’t really think we’ll die in Resident Evil, do you?”
Fang Ge grinned, “Have some confidence. We are going to control the Umbrella Corporation and rule the whole world! The worst-case scenario is just consuming all our miniature nuclear bombs and blowing the Hive sky-high!”
As long as all the high-ranking members of the Umbrella Corporation are dead, what waves can the remaining clones stir up?
“Main God, exchange two days of survival time in Resident Evil. Reward points will be deducted from each person!”