Volume 13 Ancient Bronze City Ruins Chapter 613: The Second Blasphemer
"This seems to be a creation of the Alpha civilization." said the Ghost Owl.
"Mecha made by the Alpha civilization? Then... can humans drive it?" The Hound couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know." Ghost Owl shook his head. "I've never heard of the Alpha civilization creating... manned mechas."
"I'm quite curious, can humans sit in the cockpit of the Alpha Civilization's mecha?" Layton looked eager to try. "By the way, Ke Lan, can you send me the instruction manual for this thing?"
"No." Ke Lan shook his head and stroked the cold surface of the mecha. It was not known whether it was because the Blasphemer was a mass-produced machine and needed to control costs, or for some other reason, the external armor of this machine was not made of Nino alloy, but a special material full of "muscle feeling". Although it was covered with rust, when the machine moved, these hard metals would make extremely natural movements like the muscles and bones of an organism...
Just like the black mummy summoned by the sacrificial ceremony.
Rather than being a machine, it is more like a living creature made entirely of metal.
"To be honest, I think this thing looks like a statue... Look, look!" Hound suddenly raised his voice as if he had discovered a new continent, "What is hanging under this body? Could it be that thing?... Except for the lack of a head on its neck, this thing looks too much like a human, even the parts are so complete... By the way, could their mechas be divided into male and female? This one is a male, if they find a female one, can the two mechas still produce a smaller one?"
"Old dog, how come your head is full of yellow garbage... Even the mechas developed by Ark will have many bodies with external radiators or fire-fighting equipment installed between the crotch. In my opinion, this thing is probably some kind of external equipment... No, if it is an external equipment, it should not look so integrated. Could it be that the rust all over the surface of the armor gave me this illusion?" Layton tilted his head and walked around the Blasphemer again and again.
"Valentina, come here and take a test drive." Ke Lan waved to Valentina who was standing behind the crowd - although he had personally driven the Blasphemer mecha once, in order to maximize the advantages of this thing, it still had to be operated by an ace pilot.
What's more, if Ke Lan were to be the pilot of this "Lucifer", he would not be able to borrow the power of the living armor... For their team, this would definitely be a serious waste of combat power.
After being called by Ke Lan, Valentina walked silently to the front of the Blasphemer mecha, looked up at the behemoth for half a minute, and then asked Ke Lan: "Where is its cockpit?"
"It should be right here." Ke Lan pointed at the blasphemer's chest.
"How do I open it?" Valentina asked again, "I can't find the cockpit opening device on the outside of the aircraft."
"Things from the Alpha Civilization... probably can't be thought of in the same way as humans..." Ke Lan pretended to be stupid, "I think these pipes embedded in the gaps in the armor on the surface of this machine are very similar to the blood vessels of an organism... maybe this thing needs blood to start."
He remembered that when he was in the bottomless tiankeng, the Blasphemer mecha was activated after absorbing the flesh and blood of a creature called "Subject No. 153". In the process of fighting with Ke Lan, "Subject No. 153" gradually turned into Ke Lan's appearance... From a certain point of view, it can also be said that it was Ke Lan's own flesh and blood that activated the Blasphemer.
Of course, because of the "big lizard", he would not tell anyone about his experience at the bottom of the bottomless pit. All he could do now was to give guidance in a general direction and let Valentina try it herself.
"Use blood to activate it?" The Hound couldn't help but ask in astonishment, "If such a big guy is activated by blood, I'm afraid it would take more than draining a living person dry, right?"
"It's possible that only one drop of blood is enough." Ivan shrugged. "In Eastern fantasy novels, many magic weapons have similar 'blood recognition' functions."
Valentina didn't waste any words. She held the mechanical prosthesis horizontally in front of her body, and a dagger with a blade nearly 20 centimeters long suddenly popped out from her wrist. Her other hand grasped the blade of the dagger without hesitation, and with a strong wipe, bright red blood gushed out from the palm of her hand.
"And then?" Valentina tightly grasped the blood-stained blade and turned to look at Ke Lan.
"Try to touch the body... with your blood."
Valentina leaped lightly, and with the power of her leg prosthesis, she easily jumped onto the arm of the Blasphemer mecha, and then used the arm as a springboard to jump to the top of the mecha in one breath.
She squatted down and pressed the wound on her palm against the machine body.
People with sharp eyes could see that the blood flowing from the wound did not slide down the surface of the armor, but was absorbed by this strange metal... The liquid that was originally flowing slowly in those pipes suddenly accelerated, and the originally dim fluorescence suddenly turned into a bright scarlet.
"It's actually... really activated..." Layton muttered, looking up at the girl squatting on top of the machine.
The next second, the Blasphemer Mech that was originally kneeling there suddenly trembled, and everyone subconsciously took a step back. Only Valentina and Ke Lan did not leave their original positions.
"Valentina, come down!" Ke Lan shouted to the girl, "It's ready. It's about to stand up. Be careful not to hit the top wall of the container."
"Oh." The girl responded, jumped off the machine, and rolled on the ground, thus dissipating the impact of falling from a high place.
Just like the last time Ke Lan activated the Blasphemer, the machine that was originally kneeling on its knees first stood up, then took a half step forward, leaned down in a half-squatting posture, and stretched out an arm in front of Valentina.
The cockpit located in the chest and abdomen of the Blasphemer was fully opened, but when everyone saw the scene inside the cockpit, they showed strange expressions on their faces.
"Why do I feel like... this doesn't look like a cockpit, but rather like the bloody mouth of a monster..." The Hound lowered his voice and said to Layton, "Especially the fleshy seat. It seems to be wriggling... Could this thing be the tongue of this monster?"
"I... I don't know..." Layton was also a little dumbfounded. The eager look on his face no longer existed. "Maybe... maybe it's a technology that combines biochemical technology and machinery? With the technological level of Alpha civilization, this makes sense..."
"What do you mean by reasonable or unreasonable?" The Hound could not help but speed up his speech. "Let me ask you one question. If I let you sit in this mecha, are you willing?"
Layton said nothing, but shook his head quickly.
No matter who you are, when you see such a cockpit for the first time, you will have some hesitation and resistance in your heart - especially for a "fanatic believer of the Mechanicus" like Layton, the cockpit of the Blasphemer mecha revealed as a flesh-and-blood body is like a Coca-Cola lover opening a can of Coca-Cola and finding that it is filled with Pepsi... or a sweet rice dumpling lover taking a bite of a rice dumpling wrapped in white sugar and finding that the filling in his mouth is braised pork and salted egg yolk...
Isn't this a kind of bull head... Oh no, it should be said that it is a blasphemy, a blasphemy to the supreme beauty of mechanical creations!
Layton felt like his heart was about to break.
Even if this machine is opened and it turns out to contain a steam engine from the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century of the Old Era...how could it be meat!
"I can't accept it..." Layton said to himself, shaking his head, "Now I can be sure... Alpha people must be heretics and deserve to go to hell."
But Valentina didn't care about that. She stepped on the lowered arm of the Blasphemer Mech and walked up, then sat on the fleshy seat that was still slightly squirming.
"I don't see anything to manipulate..."
Valentina stopped talking halfway through her words. Her slender body trembled violently as if she had been electrocuted. Her head suddenly tilted up, and her long neck suddenly straightened.
Ke Lan, who had experienced the Blasphemer's body once, knew clearly that the fleshy tentacles that had "grown" from the chair seat had pierced into Valentina's spine, completely connecting her consciousness and body.
But the others were unaware of this. Seeing Valentina like this, the hound immediately jumped up in panic and rushed towards the blasphemer.
He ran while shouting: "Doctor, doctor, come and save people! Damn, there's something wrong with this thing! If Xiaona gets into trouble, how am I going to explain to Lao Chi when he comes out..."
However, the hound was unable to approach the blasphemer. A huge mechanical arm was placed in front of him, blocking his steps. At the same time, Valentina's somewhat dull voice sounded from the belly of the machine: "I'm fine."
"Hmm?" Ke Lan looked at Valentina sitting in the cockpit. She didn't speak. It was obvious that these words were "said" by the blasphemer.
Can this thing also convert the consciousness in the brain into audio and play it out? Unfortunately, when he was driving, there was no one else around, so he didn't notice that there was such a function.
"You...you are Xiaona?" The hound was stunned. "What's going on?"
"My consciousness seems to be connected to this machine ." Valentina continued to "speak" with the machine, "It's like an extension of my limbs..."
The Blasphemer's mechanical hand raised up and pulled out the heavy armor-piercing sword mounted on the back of the body.
The machine's wrist turned, and the tip of the sword touched the ground, trembling slightly.
Everyone soon discovered that Valentina had actually used the tip of her sword to write the name of the machine in one centimeter square font on the ground: Fallen Angel Unit 1 - "Lucifer".
In front of the huge sword body, this line of elegant small characters forms a sharp contrast with it... The operating precision required here is even higher than using an ordinary carving knife to do micro-carving on a material the size of a grain of rice.
For conventional mechas, it might be possible to control the movements of the robotic arms using a computer program, but this Blasphemer mecha doesn't even have a screen keyboard in its cockpit, let alone a preset control program.
"I know, it's the neural connection system!" Layton clapped his hands vigorously. "The reason why there are no joysticks or buttons in the cockpit of this thing is because it is controlled by the driver's consciousness! This control method can reduce the operation delay to a level infinitely close to zero. For the operator, the moment he sits in the cockpit, this machine becomes his second body."
"Didn't you say you couldn't accept it?" The Hound couldn't help but roll his eyes at Layton. "Why are you so excited now?"
"Because the neural connection system is one of the most important development routes of the future mecha industry. As long as we can overcome this technical difficulty, even a person who has never touched a mecha, or even can't drive a car, can reach the level of today's ace pilots!" Layton explained with spit flying.
"So exaggerated?" The Hound looked at Layton, then looked at the Blasphemer's fully opened "flesh cockpit," and said, "But... you just said this was heresy. What's wrong? Have you changed your mind now?"
"Although I still cannot accept this style of cockpit, I can learn from its technical aspects. Old Dog, have you heard of bionics? Humans have gained inspiration for technological progress from many kinds of organisms... This is not contrary to my original intention... For example, the neural connection system does not necessarily have to use biological organisms, and metal electrodes can also be used..."
"Stop it, I'm not interested in listening to you, and I don't understand it either." The Hound waved his hand, "I'm only concerned about the combat effectiveness of this big guy."
"Its mobility is more than four times that of Augustus. Its weapons include the sword in its hand... The blade can be charged to activate a light blade similar to an energy shield. It also has a plasma cannon." Valentina said.
Ke Lan raised his eyebrows calmly. It seemed that there was no such thing as "annihilation bomb" in the weapon list of this Blasphemer. It was unknown whether it was not equipped at the beginning or was dismantled later... Or, it had been used up...
"Plasma cannon? Isn't that the main gun of the battleship?" Hound couldn't help but open his mouth wide, "If this thing... is used in the tunnel, it won't evaporate the teammates around it, right?"
"It should be a small plasma cannon, not as exaggerated as the one on the battleship." Layton said, "But being able to miniaturize this thing is a very difficult task in itself. You know, the cooling device of the plasma cannon on the battleship is larger than this entire container."
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