Chapter 140: Chapter 124: Signal Amplifier_l
Translator: 549690339
“Get to the point. This is the architectural design plan for the headquarters. Right now, a group of a thousand action team members is heading our way.”
Martha Owen spoke at an extremely fast pace, pointing to the scene projected by her portable personal smart brain in front of her.
Harrison Clark nodded in understanding, “So, are we supposed to break through the blockade of the action team head-on?”
“Dream on! This is the headquarters! The action team is composed of the most elite soldiers, with at least twenty Hornet Battle Cruisers. We have only one damaged Hornet Ship. What if you get shot down—are you going to tear the battleship apart with your bare hands?”
Harrison Clark sighed helplessly, “That’s true. My weak equipment has limited my strength and I can’t create a gap between myself and others.”
“Shut up and listen to me! In thirty seconds, a passage with a diameter of twenty-two meters—just big enough for us to fly through—will be opened three hundred meters north of us.”
Martha Owen took control of the Hornet Ship while explaining.
Harrison Clark asked in amazement, “How do you know that? What kind of passage is it and where does it lead to?”
“Why do you have so many questions?! Before I left the Yellowstone Research Institute, I set a timed central control backdoor via the institute’s platform that will open an escape route leading to the Headquarters Research Building. Going through it will take us directly to the headquarters research area.”
Harrison Clark was thrilled, “Impressive.”
Having a tech-savvy person by his side was great. He didn’t know how Martha managed to deceive the central smart brain’s defense mechanism, or how she came to know about this escape tunnel.
Anyway, this was certainly a good thing.
“One! Two! Three! Let’s go!”
Before the action team arrived, the Hornet Ship had already entered the tunnel.
Not only that, but the entrance to the tunnel was open for no more than five seconds. As soon as Harrison and Martha’s Hornet Ship entered, the entrance closed again.
The action team came up empty-handed and couldn’t chase them.
While they were briefly puzzled, the Hornet Ship had already rapidly approached the research area inside the headquarters.
Martha Owen brought more than just the discovery of the secret passage. While the Hornet Ship was speeding, she pointed at a box placed at the back of the narrow crew cabin of the Battlecruiser.
“Your Summit armor has more than 80% damage, so get rid of it quickly. That box contains an experimental product I just completed.”
Harrison Clark was overjoyed and immediately opened the box.
After putting on the armor, he carefully examined the characteristics of the experimental Summit armor.
The standard armor was black and had a strong metallic texture.
This experimental version, however, was azure with a hint of flowing light. Although it also had some reflective texture, it mostly resembled crystal.
Harrison Clark called up the intelligent auxiliary system of the experimental Summit armor, displayed various parameters, and glanced through them.
Material flexibility, toughness, elongation, stress resistance, rigidity after switching forms, energy transmission efficiency of fibers…
In all aspects, the experimental version was much more powerful than the standard armor, improving by at least 30% on average.
“This improved version is impressive.”
“Of course, this is my masterpiece. I named it Azure Star! Unfortunately, the alloy I added in it requires biological synthesis, and the output is too low. I estimate that the total resources of all mankind can only create seven or eight sets of Azure Stars.”
“Limited edition? That’s great.” Harrison Clark said. He then noticed that many simplified operation features were grayed out in the control panel of the intelligent auxiliary system, “Strange, why are so many simplified operation functions grayed out in the operation panel?”
“Oh, that’s because this is an experimental product, and it hasn’t passed the reliability verification. The default setting for the intelligent assistant’s functionalities is turned off, leaving only the most basic central control operation system. You can enter this password to activate it: 0JL19940503.”
Harrison Clark did as he was told.
After a while, he asked hesitantly, “Is there any chance that the Azure Star will disintegrate while I’m running?”
“Theoretically, no.”
“Practically?”
“That remains to be seen.”
“Alright then.”
“We’re almost there. The entrance ahead is sealed. Luckily, this passage was constructed fifty years ago, and the alloy materials are not as strong, nor does it have an energy shield. We can simply blast it open!”
Martha Owen pressed the launch button, and the eight Energy Beam Particle Cannons at the top of the Hornet Ship abruptly fired, hitting a single point on the alloy plate that sealed the entrance.
The terrifying high-energy particle flow converged on one point, accumulating heat rapidly and causing the temperature at that point to quickly exceed 5500 degrees Celsius.
The accumulated heat triggered an explosion, which abruptly blew open the thick alloy plate.
Numerous streams of molten metal poured down on the Hornet Ship like rain, but Martha Owen had already turned on the ship’s energy shield in front of them.
She whispered, “Charge in!”
With a deafening crash, the menacing Hornet Ship burst into a huge underground hall.
The explosion hadn’t only affected the escape tunnel; countless streams of molten metal shot forward at extremely high temperatures as well.
Each metal particle traveled a certain distance before causing secondary or even multiple explosions, which in turn released more sparks capable of instantly killing ordinary people.
There were still many technicians in this hall who were preparing to evacuate, and they were instantly affected by the aftermath of the explosion.
For a moment, the scene was filled with tragedy and horror.
As soon as Harrison and Martha’s Hornet Ship entered the tunnel, the other side had already notified the research area to evacuate urgently, but it was still too slow.
Seeing the unarmed technicians being affected, Harrison Clark finally felt a surge of pity in his heart..