It took Bai Zhi several days to successfully weave a cotton-blend fabric from the unknown silk. The ivory white fabric is soft, breathable and strong in texture. The system did not give it a name, so she named it Mian Ge. Bai Zhi's experiment found that Mian Ge not only has a high defense value, but also has a great bonus to her mental perception. Wearing clothes made of cotton kudzu, she could sense all the movements in the entire research institute's three-story office building above ground without having to enter the sensory world, and it didn't take much effort.
Lu Lei tested it in actual combat and reported with satisfaction: "It's sweat-absorbent and breathable. It's perfect for underwear. It's a great thing. The defense is no worse than the best body armor. It also enhanced my control over my powers. I can't estimate how much." Come out, at least 30%."
Even if the increase is only 10%, it is definitely a good thing for people with super powers.
Bai Zhi immediately made dozens of sets, two sets for Lu Lei, some for the five people to wear themselves, and some for Yue Dongting to give to Gu Tianbai with dozens of pieces of fabric.
This kind of silk alone cannot be used to weave anything. The cotton and kudzu used in the blend are the best varieties cultivated by Angelica dahurica. She could not explain the source of the materials to Sen. Anyway, only one-third of the silk was used, so Bai Zhi decided to wait for Hao Xing to analyze it before deciding whether to tell Sen.
The commendation meeting was actually a legion reorganization meeting. Each legion and the private soldiers of the nobles were reorganized into three large legions to build a defense line at the forefront. The elite of the entire army were mobilized to form a mecha unit. The research institute was renamed Hirabayashi Mecha Research and Development Center, and the new The mecha units formed were merged.
The follow-up investment in the research and development of mechas is not a small amount. The cooperation between the military and the nobles is still close. Bai Zhi is firmly seated as the director, but the meeting place is changed to the mecha division headquarters located in the hinterland of the desert.
Most of the mecha divisions are acquaintances. Hai Fengqiu is the deputy division commander, Hong Xingluan is the division chief of staff, and Sun Heping is the deputy chief of staff. Four of the six squadron leaders are of the same type. During meetings, Bai Zhi always has the illusion that she is in the East China Sea. Not only the meeting made Bai Zhi happy, but also passing by the mecha training ground made Bai Zhi happy. She specially set up a camera on the small spaceship she was traveling in, and flew slowly while passing by the training ground. She took pictures and explained them at the same time. After taking the pictures, she divided them into two parts. One part was sent to Mian Ning and Mian An through a Trojan horse, and finally turned into mecha information. It was taken away by Hao Xing and another copy was transferred to the brain in Zhang Tianzhao's room in the fortress. Zhang Tianzhao also has a new habit of recording a paragraph when encountering interesting things, and when he has time, he will return to the fortress and save it in his brain for Bai Zhi to read.
In the golden sand sea, all kinds of mechas were beating and crawling, and their appearance and types changed every day.
When the new cold season uniforms were issued, the military's first-generation mechas were finally finalized. They also adopted a skeleton-type armor design. The combat effectiveness of the mechas controlled by ordinary superpowers would at least quadruple. During actual combat exercises, Hai Fengqiu wore this mecha and defeated half a group by himself. His performance was so good that the whole division was jealous.
The Feng Ji family received the same information, but the mechas they produced were very different. The mechas made by Fengjia use lightweight materials, are fast and flexible. The Ji family's mecha uses space equipment in energy cabins and other places. The mecha is more than seven meters tall, but it has a large cabin that can accommodate two mechas. It's a bit shameless to team up with the two. But the combat effectiveness soared.
The Gu family's small handicraft workshop is rich and willful, and they have materials but don't care about the cost. Gu Tianbai makes a arrogant Transformer, with an ideal belt capacity of 4,000 cubic meters. He stuck to this upper limit to build a large mecha. After finalization, the average height of the human-shaped mecha is seventy meters, and the animal-shaped mecha is fifty meters tall. It is completely customized according to the user's personal preferences and superpowers. Both models can be used. Transform into a small spaceship, use battery crystals as energy to make your own, stuff it into your belt and take it with you.
Qi Haoyu snatched back more than a dozen sets of smart brain hosts, and used several bracelets to install one set on a mecha. He then used a brand-new operating system and paired it with the cotton Ge underwear brought back by Bai Zhi as the lining of the operating suit. The operation of Transformers did not It's not complicated. Even the impatient Mi'an can easily peel the shells of hard-boiled eggs with her big toy, despite the mecha's size.
The big one makes people's blood boil, but the small one is amazing. Hao Xing's genius was to use cotton lining as the inner lining, leather armor as the skeleton, and alloy mixed with memory metal as the outer shell. He borrowed the design idea of the Ji family's five-in-one space bracelet and put all the spare parts that can be put into the space equipment. After entering the space equipment, the finished product is similar to a space combat suit. Qi Haoyu, who is 2.1 meters tall, is only 2.5 meters tall in his clothes. In terms of flexibility and agility, he is several blocks ahead of the Feng family mecha. In terms of combat effectiveness, he far exceeds the Ji family mecha. As for comparison with military mechas, Hao Xing said that he never bullies people.
Large mechas are expensive to build, and of course they cannot be used by anyone. In fact, this thing is too big for anyone without an ideal belt to play with. The zombies in Qi Haoyu's family all stared at the little mecha, howling and drooling.
The materials used for the small mecha are all Baizhi brand, which Gu Tianbai's small workshop cannot produce in batches to reduce costs, so Gu Tianbai decided to share the small mecha with the Ji family. He and Sen said that they found some materials in the undercurrent area and wanted Bai Zhi to deal with it according to his ideas, and asked Sen to find an honest reason for Bai Zhi to come to Shucheng.
Sen always met Gu Tianbai's requests immediately, and he immediately sent an invitation for academic exchanges to the Mecha R&D Center. The military and other nobles have been giving back scientific research results for a long time. Soon Feng Lizhi and the commander of the mecha division Yuan Dong accompanied the scientists to the Shucheng base on the Leishan.
The Jileishan and the inconspicuous Acorn "happened" to be connected side by side on the same pipe.
Academic exchange is not a job for “buying and selling”. While others went for academic exchanges, Bai Zhi, under the cover of Lu Lei, teleported from Jilei Mountain to the Acorn to reunite with her relatives and children.
In the year they were apart, or the three years before they were together briefly for a week, the children had grown up. Qi Haoyu and the others are all over 2 meters tall, and even Xiao Fei is close to 1.9 meters tall.
Mian Ning is only a little shorter than Xiao Fei. With long arms and legs, Mian Ning is actually still a young boy. His facial features only resemble those of Zhang Tianzhao, and his temperament is similar to that of Gu Tianbai when he was a boy. Mi'an is more like her father than her brother, and is now half a head taller than Bai Zhi. She looks a bit like an adult, but is actually still a child. She was so clingy to her mother that she wished she could tell her everything that happened after being separated for so long. She would follow Bai Zhi wherever she went. Mian Ning followed his mother and sister firmly. When his mother and sister entered the bathroom together, he squatted at the door.
Bai Zhi wanted to whisper about the cube with Qi Haoyu but couldn't find a chance. As soon as they started to communicate spiritually, Mi An intervened and shouted: "Uncle, now is our time, how about you next time?"
Qi Haoyu could only surrender and retreat. Bai Zhi finally found a chance to avoid the eyes and ears of the two children, and teleported in and out of the fortress with Hao Xing. Hao Xing went in and out six or seven times without feeling anything at all. He said depressedly that he didn't understand the high technology of teleporting in and out of space at all. It would be more practical for him to develop the teleportation array according to his own ideas.
Bai Zhicai started talking to Gu Tianbai when the whole family was having dinner. When talking about breakthroughs, she said that she might be able to help others break through. Gu Tianbai said, "Hao Lang passed some information related to breakthroughs to Hao Xing. After a while, we They took turns entering the undercurrent area to look for opportunities and energy for breakthroughs. With a large amount of energy available for experiments, Hao Xing and Mian Ning should be able to create the teleportation array. Once the teleportation array can transport people and materials between the undercurrent area and Tucheng, The teleportation array must be handed over to Zhang Tianzhao and Dongting as soon as possible. At that time, you may need to drive the mecha or spaceship back alone, so you can practice more in the future."
"I will. Can you give me a copy of the breakthrough information?" Bai Zhi peeled the shrimp shells for Mian, with a calm expression. Hai Fengqiu went to training, and he never made any notes about communication breakthroughs. She often used the brain that Zhang Tianzhao placed in the fortress, and knew that they actually used the brain to communicate with each other through messages. But Zhang Tianzhao deleted the exchange content very cleanly, and all she could see were the file and directory names. She thought that they didn't tell her because the side effects after the breakthrough were not small, and they hadn't figured out how to tell her yet.
"Hao Xing discussed with me and said that Hai Fengqiu and the others don't think you need to know anything related to breakthroughs. They think... not knowing anything is more conducive to your performance. The first person to break through also knows nothing. , everyone who is at the forefront has no experience." Gu Tianbai stuffed a piece of fruit into Bai Zhi's mouth, "Children don't need to know this knowledge. They also have to find their own path to evolution. Old experience is not suitable for new ones. Humanity."
"Brother, you are always right." Bai Zhi promised him while chewing the fruit and put the peeled shrimp on her daughter's plate. Mi An cut the shrimp meat in half and gave a piece to Mi Ning. Bai Zhi smiled and picked up another piece and stuffed it into her daughter's mouth.
The children who crowded the long dining table, including her two, were new species. Children need to find their own path to evolution, and she is willing to do the same with them.
Bai Zhi filled the Acorn's warehouse with fruits, vegetables and grain produced in space, as well as several containers of cotton and cutlass. She also left behind hundreds of sets of leather armors she had accumulated in the past few months. Gu Tianbai gave her the new agricultural machinery modified by the Gu family's small workshop and the large and small mechas tailor-made for the five-person group.
Bai Zhi wanted to spend more time with her children, so she stuffed the mecha into the warehouse and asked the foursome to pick it up. The foursome rarely met in space. Zhang Tianzhao tried out the new farm machinery first and found that it was super easy to use whether it was growing vegetables, growing food, or harvesting herbs. He was satisfied and left first with his new toys. Yunlai and Yue Dongting collected food and supplies, packed their toys and hurried away. They were very busy there, and every time they came in, the time was counted in minutes.
Haifengqiu and Yue Dongting used small toys to compete. Yue Dongting won and left the gang territory happily. Ceres would hold an agricultural restructuring meeting in half an hour, and he had to be present. Haifeng Qiu, the only one who had time to stay in the space, was still very happy after losing his life. He dug ditches on the plains and planted crops and herbs with great energy.
Gu Tianbai and Bai Zhi met and sent two boxes of cotton and grass to Bai Zhi. Bai Zhi was "busy" for a few days and sent fabric samples, several sets of underwear and several sets of leather armor to Gu Tianbai and Sen respectively.
When Sen tried on the underwear, he was ecstatic at first, and then he laughed like a fool when he heard that Feng Li Zhi was mentioned. Before the lab's fabric and leather analysis results came out, he divided half of the one hundred boxes of silk in stock to Bai Zhi, and also transported nearly a thousand Mondo beasts he had saved for Bai Zhi to the Shucheng base. Bai Zhi could only leave her child behind and go to Ji's cargo ship to skin them. In order to strip all the Mondomon as quickly as possible, she drank the stamina potion until she vomited.
There happened to be a dinner party held at Ji's family that day, and Feng Lizhi couldn't even drink water, and she didn't look good on Sen throughout the whole process. Although the head of the Ji family restrained himself, he kept following Feng Lizhi with his eyes. Even a certain theoretical research expert who was naturally amblyopic saw that everything looked like a mask, and said to his assistant: "The head of the Feng family fell in love with us. Director. Go back and double the amount of funding we applied for for that project."
The time to get together always passed very quickly. After two delays, the Ji Lei Shan reluctantly returned to Ping Lin.
During this time, an unknown small family publicly launched a new generation of smart bracelets. The bracelet has thirty cubic meters of space. The hardware of the smart brain is stored in the space. It is connected to the smart brain operating screen on the bracelet through special materials and methods. Its functions are more powerful than ordinary desktop smart brains, and it is stored in the space of the bracelet. There is a desktop display screen and operation keyboard, which can be connected when needed, making it very convenient to use.
The advantage of the space clip bag is that it is concealed and can be hidden wherever you want. The advantage of the smart brain bracelet is that it is convenient to use the smart brain, but the disadvantage is that people will know you have it when you shake your hand. Except for people who have special needs for intelligence, such as scientific researchers, most people are still willing to buy a space bag if necessary. But the Feng family was still under a lot of pressure. Thirty cubic meters is larger than twenty cubic meters, which shows that they are ahead of the Feng family in the research and development of space equipment.
Ze Shou was waiting for the analysis results of the smart brain bracelet outside the laboratory. Fengjia scientists took apart the smart brain bracelet and found out that the secret of the bracelet is that there is a small pocket of thirty cubic meters hidden in the mezzanine. The material and workmanship of the small pocket are very different from the space clip bag, and they don't seem to have anything to do with Donghai products.
Yangzhou Shanzhai learned from the bracelet and quickly created a 60-cubic space bag. Ze finally put down the tone he mentioned and instructed the family members responsible for business activities to discuss cooperation with the small family. However, they arrived a step later than the Ji family, and the small family reached a cooperation agreement with the Ji family.
The issue of the Ji family's ability to produce space equipment was solved by Sen wittily. Bai Zhi's focus is on improving her own abilities. Haifengqiu created a tailor-made training plan for her, and also provided some training equipment and two mechas for her to play in space. She re-planned the planting area of crops and woods. The new agricultural machinery freed her from the physical labor of growing herbs by hand. She can now devote a large part of her time to physical fitness and combat training.
Fengjia officially launched the 60-cubic space clip bag, and Sen also sent Bai Zhi a replica of the Bugman backpack series - a coin purse made of frog-like skin, with three 100-cubic space bags in three layers. space. The coin purse was full of things, including boxes of candies, earth-flavored biscuits, dried fruits and dairy products, drinking water and convenience foods, as well as wilderness survival equipment and protective clothing.
Bai Zhi guessed that Sen was warning her in a subtle way: something might be wrong with Ping Linxing. She wrote a note asking how the Yue Dongting Feng family was doing, and asked Hao Fengqiu to ask Hao Lang if there was any problem with the Chaotic Star Belt. Yue Dongting's reply was that the Feng family's material allocation was all normal. Hai Fengqiu replied that only Gu Tianbai and a dozen people were left behind in the chaotic star belt. Everyone had gone to the undercurrent area, and Hao Lang could not contact Hao Xing now.
Zhang Tianzhao asked: What did you find?
Bai Zhi told him honestly and told everyone that Sen sent someone to deliver a new space equipment. The three floors totaling 300 cubic meters of space were filled with emergency supplies and snacks. She felt that Sen must have discovered something and gave her a subtle warning.
People give gifts to increase their favorability, right? Lin Yunlai first laughed like crazy, and then smiled bitterly. He was the front wave, and Sen was the rear wave. They were both beaten to death on the beach.
Zhang Tianzhao replied seriously to his wife, who was inexperienced in such matters: Maybe he found something and was not sure. Sun Heping's family members are not with the army. You should take the time to sort out those snacks and give them to their children.
In order to prevent Bai Zhi from getting entangled in this matter, Zhang Tianzhao also went to a planet where frogs were raised, brought back more than a hundred corpses in containers, and asked Bai Zhi to go to the gang's territory to skin them.
The smallest bodies of these frogs are more than three meters long, and their bodies are covered with a carapace with bone spurs. Even if they are dead, they look extremely ferocious.
"How long has it been since then? How come it has grown so big?" Bai Zhi was surprised. She put on her gloves and pulled out a corpse. She touched out five pieces of frog-like skin. The peeled skin looked much better than the small frog-like skin. , she threw this one into another empty container with a smile on her face.
"Isn't their staple food bugs? Most of the people who have eaten bugs will mutate." Zhang Tianzhao picked out a big one with the tip of his gun. "It has a crystal core when it is this big. For underground liberation organizations that are short of energy, Crystal nuclei are very useful. However, the mutated varieties have no reproductive ability, so they are currently a good tool for cleaning up the battlefield."
Bai Zhi touched this one, and ten frog skins came out. She touched all the corpses, harvested hundreds of frog skins, and sorted the materials to make new bags. Zhang Tianzhao took two containers out and burned them and then came back. He popped out a water balloon and washed Bai Zhi's hands. He asked, "Can you copy the bags sent by the Ji family?"
"No, he just sewed three small bags of 100 cubic meters together. The idea is the same as the bracelet." Bai Zhi washed her hands and sorted the backpack materials, "I will use new materials to make a few bags. I will see the biggest effect later." How old is it?”
Each bag made of high-quality frog skin is 400 cubic meters and looks exactly the same as before. Bai Zhi selected the best-looking pieces of skin and made a few more, but the result was the same, still four hundred cubic meters.
"They are all four hundred, maybe the upper limit has been reached." Bai Zhi was slightly disappointed. The mutated frog looked very ferocious and could produce crystal nuclei. She also thought she could get five hundred this time.
"Four hundred is already a lot. Anyone here who gets a twenty-cubic backpack will be extremely happy. This can't be taken out for the time being. Put the finished ones in the warehouse first. When the Ji family's copycat cloth comes out, we will Make some hundreds of vests for me." Zhang Tianzhao looked at the timer on his wrist, "My time is up, I'll go out first. The emperor may have big plans recently, so Yun Lai and I will be busy for a while."
"Okay. You have to be careful, and tell Yun Lai to be careful too." Bai Zhi hugged his neck on tiptoes, "I'll wait for you to come back."
Zhang Tianzhao put his arms around Bai Zhi's slender waist and lowered his head to kiss her. He really couldn't bear to leave. He opened the note and wanted to inform Yun Lai that he would go out an hour later. However, he saw the note on Haifengqiu saying: Angelica, bring purple sedge essential oil and insect attractants. and pesticides came out, something went wrong in Laboratory No. 9.
"Look at the note, I'll get the potion." Zhang Tianzhao said while modifying the note: dosage.
When Hai Fengqiu found out that they were together, he immediately changed the note: Prepare for a thousand people first.
Bai Zhi wrote: Got it, come out immediately.
Zhang Tianzhao teleported to the warehouse with Bai Zhi and said, "I'll pretend, you change clothes."
Bai Zhi changed her clothes, and Zhang Tianzhao had packed two space pockets and divided them into two for her. "You go out first, and I will pack a few more bags and put them on the stone table next to the teleportation point."
Bai Zhi put the things away, kissed him hard, and ran to the teleportation point.
As soon as it came out, the brain on my wrist screamed and called the police. Bai Zhi opened it and saw that the notification was sent three minutes ago. The division commander Yuan Dong asked her to send Zizhi essential oil to the division headquarters. Bai Zhi didn't let the guards accompany her. She could handle hundreds of insect mechas on her own. It would be a burden for Lu Lei and the others to follow them. Lu Lei himself knew this very well, and he would not go unless Bai Zhi let him go.
After Bai Zhi got in the car, she turned on the video screen. On the other end was the conference room of the spaceship. Yuan Dong and Haifeng Qiuhuan, the leaders of the gendarmerie, were sitting around a conference table. Everyone except Hai Fengqiu was stunned when they found Bai Zhi arriving alone in a speed car.
"I'm meeting at the base. I'm listening to your meeting." Bai Zhi didn't talk nonsense.
Yuan Dong didn't waste any words, and asked Bai Zhi to turn around and drive to Laboratory No. 9, and ask the gendarmerie to continue introducing the situation.
A gendarmerie squadron leader said: "We had a team on routine inspection near Laboratory No. 9 and found that the communication signal was blocked. They retreated to report the situation and entered the laboratory, but did not come out for fifteen minutes. We sent two more The team also lost contact after they entered. It has been an hour and five minutes since they discovered that the signal was blocked."
"The command center said that the monitoring information was cut off sixty minutes ago. There has been too much snow these days, and the monitoring is often cut off for more than ten minutes and then resumed, so they didn't pay attention to it," said the captain of the gendarmerie. "After our patrol team lost contact, the staff at the command center analyzed the data and believed that Laboratory 9 might have been controlled an hour ago."
He didn't say who controlled him. There are five hundred guards stationed in Laboratory No. 9. To kill these guards quietly, the only way to kill them is by bugs.
The flying car is self-driving. Bai Zhi had nothing to do, so she listened to the discussion over there and opened the Trojan horse program to capture and analyze the records of the sudden disconnection and recovery of monitoring in the past thirty days.
After more than ten seconds, a list was displayed on the screen in front of the passenger seat of the flying car. Bai Zhi followed the list to retrieve the weather records of the broken time. It was discovered that the biggest problem was not Laboratory 9, but Laboratory 21, which is two hundred kilometers away from Laboratory 9. In the past 24 hours, this laboratory has been disconnected from monitoring for only three to five minutes each time. The dozen or so disconnections were not always caused by extreme weather.
The current project of Laboratory 21 is the in-depth development and utilization of energy crystals.
Bai Zhi put herself in her shoes. If she led a group of subordinates into the enemy's most powerful weapon research and development base, she would seize Laboratory No. 21 and steal the useful information. While listening to the meeting there, she called up the real-time monitoring outside Laboratory No. 21. The Hao Xing brand Trojan was very powerful. She immediately found a shoe print on the slope a few kilometers away. The pattern on the sole showed that it was a new pair of shoes, and the logo on the sole showed This is a manufacturer that specializes in providing shoes to the imperial family. Bai Zhi compared the bottom patterns of the shoes produced by this manufacturer in the database and determined that these were new shoes made after the Star Gate was closed. The person wearing these new shoes has recently come over from the empire.
The direction of the shoe prints is away from Laboratory 21. Leaving a warm and comfortable room in such a snowstorm is just a matter of time, unless... he has finished what he wanted to do.
Laboratory No. 21 and No. 9 are both traps! The royal family's big move is likely to target the entire Ping Lin Planet. The person who left the footprints is very important and must be caught alive.
Bai Zhi took the initiative to speak at the meeting for the first time, "Excuse me, is the destination No. 9 or No. 21?"
The people around the conference table were silent. The gendarmerie squadron leader looked at Zhi Nao and said: "Your flying car is flying to base 21. Please change the destination of the automatic driving to base 9."
"Uh, are you really not going to Laboratory No. 21?" Bai Zhi said while writing on the note: No. 9 and No. 21 are both traps. I found the prints of new shoes specially made for the royal family near No. 21, not long after I left.
Bai Zhi sent the analysis to the group. She had the authority to retrieve the information. She used the Trojan just to make it faster.
"I wasn't sure whether it was No. 9 or No. 21 just now. I fetched the records and analyzed it, and I think it should be No. 21." Bai Zhi emphasized while changing to manual driving and flying to Laboratory No. 21 at the highest speed.
Everyone in the conference room was looking at the list. Bai Zhi noted the weather conditions on the list. From the data, it was true that the 21st was a bigger problem than the 9th. This situation was fed back to the command center, which confirmed that five or six minutes had passed. Bai Zhi's flying car is only over a hundred kilometers away from Laboratory 21. Bai Zhi entered the sensory world and vaguely sensed a powerful energy fluctuation dozens of kilometers ahead. The energy wave suddenly disappeared, but Bai Zhi marked the place where he disappeared. Her speed car quickly flew to a place a few kilometers away from the man's hiding place.
The bright light illuminated the vast snowfield and also illuminated a line of footprints in the snow.
Bai Zhi showed the person on the other end: "I saw the footprints. This shoe manufacturer specializes in providing shoes to the imperial family. I remember the bottom patterns of all their shoes before the year before last year, but this one is not available. I think we are in big trouble. .”
The people around the conference table were silent again. An imperial royal family suddenly appeared near the Hirabayashi Energy Laboratory, which means that the empire has more advanced space channel technology than the Star Gate, and the military also has a traitor from the royal family. Either of these two is worse than the laboratory being occupied by bugs. More troublesome.
Yuan Dong had to admit that noble women were more vigilant in some aspects than a battalion of outstanding scouts put together. He directly contacted the commander-in-chief, explained the situation and requested reinforcements.
"I'm going to follow the shoe prints and have a look." Bai Zhi drove the speedster and flew along the line of footprints.
Hai Fengqiu was the first to react and said: "Turn on the outward-facing camera on the front of your car and give me the connection code. The energy box of your speed car is on the lower right side of the dashboard. Open it. There is a spare box with only a little energy left. Put on the energy crystal. Then pretend that the energy is exhausted and get out of the car to call for help. Don’t leave the speeding car more than 500 meters. We can get to your place within five minutes. Once we have done that, turn off the video screen."
Bai Zhi did as she was told, the lights slowly dimmed, and the speeding car slid along the ground for several hundred meters. Bai Zhi left the headlights on, pushed the door open and got out, shouting: "Is there anyone there?"
