Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 2437 Dragon’s Backbone
When Zhou Long saw the mecha in front of him, a look of "trance" appeared in his eyes for the first time.

Two eight-meter-high mechas were performing self-inspections on a 100-meter-diameter tungsten steel operating table. Engineer Lin Zhong introduced them, "According to the mecha design you gave us after winning the first "Omnic Crisis" Global Martial Arts Tournament, and the parameters collected during training some time ago, we built it specifically for you - Daxia's 'Dragon Spine'.

The streamlined titanium alloy skeleton and graphene muscle bundles covering the entire body can show unique beauty while making it impossible for ordinary shock swords to kill with one blow.

The muzzle of the twin 30mm machine gun on its back will emit blue light as a warning when in combat mode as required by the competition, but the firepower will not be reduced. It has 400 rounds of ammunition and is equipped with an intelligent tracking system.

The shoulder of this main mecha is equipped with a newly developed pulse cannon. At least within the combat radius of the Sky Battle Center, because it uses an independent compact core for power supply, its single-shot energy of up to 500 megajoules can easily kill a single target.

However, the charging efficiency and release times are limited, and only three launches are allowed per game.

In addition, there is the cold weapon you emphasized. The left arm is equipped with a foldable high-frequency sword with a rated output of 1200Hz. The blade is made of nano-ceramic composite material with a hardness exceeding that of diamond, and can be easily inserted into the defensive armor of ordinary game mechas. "

At this point, engineer Lin Zhong also expressed some doubts: "Contestant Zhou, your design of 'Dragon Spine' overemphasized attack, and all the defense needs were placed on the two technical designs of the titanium alloy skeleton and the graphene muscle bundle covering the whole body. According to the parameter restriction rules of the competition mecha, we can only sacrifice the combat endurance of the mecha, which is a test for your combat strategy.

Are you sure you don't want to increase the energy reserves of the backup mecha?"

Zhou Long looked at the two eight-meter-tall mechas in front of him, which were designed in the style of oriental dragons. The trance in his eyes had turned into satisfaction and expectation as the engineer introduced them.

He stared blankly and explained casually: "There is no need to increase energy reserves. The purpose of fighting is to defeat the opponent in the shortest possible time. Excess energy is a waste."

If it were a real combat, Zhou Long would still consider the battery life, but in the special mecha competition of the Global Mecha Challenge, and being restricted to a battle center, Zhou Long did not even think about increasing the battery life.

After all, all combat mechas in the game have an upper limit on technical parameters. If combat endurance and energy reserves are increased, the parameters of corresponding technological components such as attack, radar detection, and agile movement will be weakened.

He would rather annihilate his opponent in a short period of time, rather than discovering that his combat power was mismatched during the fight and preparing to escape.

After hearing Zhou Long's explanation, Engineer Lin Zhong remained silent.

After all, in his opinion, these contestants and the mechas they designed were all alternative experimental materials. More variables would only benefit, not harm, the collection of experimental data.

Therefore, after giving a general introduction to the technical parameters and core weapon configuration of the two "Dragon Spine" machines, he took Zhou Long to the operating room nearby.

"Because of the addition of energy weapons, we have also upgraded the neural cradle this time. You will no longer be completely integrated with the mecha, but can control it from a third-person perspective. After all, neural signal technology cannot allow you to accurately measure and control energy weapons, so there will be some limitations.

Of course, as a champion, I know you have been exposed to some special training programs for mecha neural synchronization before. I can tell you now that these training programs are very excellent. If you can persist and make certain breakthroughs and progress, this neural cradle may allow you to transfer from the third-person perspective back to the first-person fusion perspective, but that requires many special parameters to meet the standards before it can be possible..."

Zhou Long listened to the young engineer's explanation. Although he was a little confused, he still followed the instructions and, after disinfecting his whole body, he lay in the neural cradle. When the sensors were no longer "inserted" into the body, but were attached to various parts of the body, Zhou Long had a different and special feeling, as if these sensors had their own life.

"Now, please make sure your breathing mask is stable and take a deep breath for one minute..."

When the sound of bone conduction sounded, Zhou Long began to take deep breaths skillfully and shifted his attention from thinking to his body.

One minute is not fast, but it is not slow either.

After taking the third deep breath, a special pain instantly spread from all parts of the body to the heart and brain stem.

The pain came so quickly and intensely that it even reminded Zhou Long of the feeling of electric shocks on his fingers during extreme training in the Amazon rainforest.

That feeling is not even one-fifth of this!

He only lasted three seconds before the drug components in the respirator took effect and Zhou Long quickly fell into a deep sleep.

Engineer Lin Zhong saw that the contestant Zhou Long's physical dynamic indicators began to fluctuate violently. Although he had always regarded him as "experimental consumables", he was still a little worried.

There are only 33 experimental consumables this time. If anything goes wrong, just use one and there will be one less.

If we want to have such sufficient experimental supplies in the future, we will have to wait for the next competition in three years.

"I hope you can meet the standards. After all, you are the candidate that Mr. Gu is optimistic about..." After sighing in his heart, Lin Zhong began to carefully observe the dynamic data generated in real time, and screened and interpreted the data with the artificial intelligence AI [Hua Tuo].

The human body is a complex "organism" like the universe. Once it has a "new body" through the information data link of the neural cradle, many magical signals will be generated every moment.

While Lin Zhong was studying the signal data, contestant Zhou Long was already immersed in a dream.

The dream lasted for a long time and had a very large scope. He even felt as if he was watching a movie similar to the origin of the universe in the opening ceremony, and he was the protagonist.

However, as his body evolved, he did not possess the wisdom to use tools, nor did he have degenerated feet and more flexible fingers, but...

"Neural signal connection successful... Dragon Spine system is being activated..."

A slightly mechanical voice sounded, and Zhou Long opened his eyes. At the same time, the eyes of the mecha dragon spine on the operating table also flashed.