There is no doubt that this mission was a failure, and Austin is also suspected of being involved in poking a big mess in Doveira. With many factors combined, it is unlikely that he will receive a new mission in the near future.
The crew members all went back to their homes to look for their mothers. Austin was an orphan, and Vanya didn't come back either, so he could only wander around Fleming Harbor.
Followed by a group of "eyes" who didn't know who they were, the streets in Austin were boring, so they slipped to the door of Henry's store.
To be honest, the main reason why Henry was recruited into the fleet was because of Vanya's reputation, and he was not too optimistic about his work ability. Austin always felt that it was a success if this guy was not killed by the crew.
I didn't expect that he would perform so well in this mission - although his brilliance had nothing to do with his job as a doctor, at least Austin had recognized his role as an inventor. After all, the world today has never heard of anyone being able to create a big bomb that could severely damage the ghost ship. What's more, this guy really dared to let go of the bomb. He could blow up his whole body but only his head would still be alive.
After this operation, even the first mate Oliver had to walk around Henry when he saw him.
Austin expected him to continue to shine by his side, so the joint crew hid the matter of Henry's "definitive weapon" and provided him with more scientific research funds and materials - such as a certain sea anemone that kept chattering at people.
After returning to the August Lion, Austin lost Ingrahan to Henry without even thinking about it. Firstly, because this guy was too annoying. Secondly, Mariano was right. This guy had extremely high soul strength. , especially suitable as an alchemy material.
It's been a few days since we landed ashore. I don't know how well Henry is doing it. Since we're all here, let's go up and take a look.
Austin turned his head and glanced at the deserted street behind him, chuckled, knocked on the door and entered Henry's shop.
As soon as he entered the door, Henry's voice came from the studio upstairs: "Captain, you are here. You must be here to see my new work. Come upstairs quickly, now is the time!"
[I only heard his voice but didn’t see him. It seemed he was really busy. ] Doug joked.
Austin trudged through the haphazard piles of prosthetics and climbed up to the second floor.
The original workbench was moved against the wall, and a small open space was cleared out of the messy room. An object about two meters high was placed in the center of the open space and covered with a dark green waterproof canvas.
Some lines and pipes are connected to the strange instruments and containers on the workbench at one end, and to the thing in the middle at the other end.
"What is this?" Austin was very curious and couldn't help asking.
"It's something I've always wanted to do before, but it couldn't be completed because it lacked a key component." Henry was debugging the complicated instruments in front of the workbench, but he was not idle, "Thanks to the captain, you gave me that last time." Sea anemones, directly solve the biggest problem.”
"So..." Austin's head started to hurt, and he resisted not pulling out his gun, "What is this?"
"Do you want to know his name? Actually, I haven't thought about it, but I have an idea..."
"Ah, the weather outside is really nice, let's go out for a walk." Austin sighed, turned around and went downstairs.
Henry became anxious when he saw this: "Okay, okay, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I've only given him a code name at the moment, and I will add a formal name later."
"I suddenly remembered that Vanya asked me to write her a letter, and I kept it soon." Austin continued walking down, but after taking two steps, he heard a bang, and then felt his legs being clamped.
Looking down, Henry's entire upper body was ejected, his arms tightly hugged Austin's ankles, and the two horizontal bars on his face were wavy.
"Please, please leave after reading this. Please, I really beg you..."
Austin took a deep breath, pulled out the pistol from his waist, pointed it at Henry's head, and said through gritted teeth: "If you keep talking nonsense, one of you and I will leave today."
Henry's upper body bounced up instantly, and he walked back to his lower body while standing on his hands. He used both hands to assemble the two parts of the body. Then he cleared his throat and said, "This is my latest development of a humanoid weapon for combat."
As he spoke, he walked to the side and pulled open the canvas with both hands, revealing the structure underneath.
It was a man, a man made of steel—at least the basic limbs and head were human-like. As for the rest, it is just like Henry himself, with no facial features on the head, two rows of exhaust grilles on the back, and many interfaces reserved on the arms and legs, which can be used to install parts with different functions.
Different from Henry, this guy has a transparent shell on the back of his head. You can see that it is filled with a light white translucent liquid, and a black sea anemone is soaked in the liquid.
Those dense tubes are connected to the back of the head.
"Is this... Ingra Khan?" Austin opened his mouth wide. He was really shocked by this thing.
"Yes, that's him." Henry puffed up his chest proudly, "He is now the core and brain of this machine. With him, this guy can fight and operate like a real 'human'."
"Um." Austin scratched his head, "Can you start it and take a look?"
"Of course." Henry walked to the workbench in three steps and pressed a green button.
After a while, two red horizontal bars lit up on the guy's head where his eyes were.
After the horizontal bar flashed twice, the guy lowered his head, and then took a shaky step.
It was obviously just a machine, but Austin seemed to feel his excitement.
"How's it going? Isn't it awesome?"
"Indeed." Austin admired sincerely. Even if he hasn't seen the combat demonstration yet, such a thing is awesome enough just by moving.
Hearing the voices of the two people, "Ingrahan" turned to look at Austin and Henry.
Henry waved to him excitedly, and Austin frowned.
Something is wrong, nine out of ten is wrong.
[Danger Sense is triggered. ] Doug reminded me.
Austin's mouth twitched: "You won't just use this sea anemone without any treatment, right?"
Henry nodded vigorously: "Of course, such a good material does not need any processing at all!"
"Fuck." Austin smiled suddenly with relief.
Before he could finish laughing, "Ingrahan"'s casserole-sized fist hit him.
Austin kicked Henry away, grabbed the fist that was thrown at him with both hands, and used his lower body to pull the big guy down to the ground, barely breaking through the floor.
Although Henry didn't understand why this happened, he was not a fool and immediately turned off the switch.
The two horizontal bars suddenly went out, and "Ingra Khan" stopped struggling.
"What's going on? It wasn't like this when I started the experiment before." Henry was confused. He had also started the experiment before. At that time, this guy was not so aggressive.
"This sea anemone, I turned him into a sea anemone. He wants to tear me apart when he sees me." Austin got out from under the big guy, patted the clothes on his body, and said with a bitter smile.
"Can you solve it? Otherwise it won't work. He will surrender to the enemy first in the fight."
"It should be fine. I'll study it further."
"Also, does this thing have the function of talking?"
"No, if you want I can..."
Austin felt a chill and quickly interrupted Henry: "No, it's best not to add it. Don't ever do this."
"By the way, you said he has a code name, what is it called?"
Henry chuckled and said, "A humanoid combat weapon with a height of two and a half meters—"
"——Referred to as 'Gundam'!"
