Chapter 259: Back To Turbine Town (1)
The question is, where to get the manpower he required the most at this time?
Zhang Qin Feng grabbed Satella's hand while still in his deep thought. Closing his eyes for a moment to brainstorm for a solution with Stein, Zhang Qin Feng soon came up with something that might be a brilliant idea.
"Satella. Let's get back to the Wind Base. I have something in my mind." he seems to have found a method to solve his problem with manpower.
"Sure." Satella smiled.
After giving a few instructions to the soldiers present here, Zhang Qin Feng left with Satella. This facility will be left to Queenie and Shaun until a better candidate appeared to manage this place on his behalf.
"Feng… What kind of idea you had this time?" Satella initiates a conversation with him while focusing on the road. After driving across this path a few times, a track has started to form on the ground.
This made the trip home easier than before due to the track left from vehicles moving around. It was as if they're leaving a marking on the ground as an indication of where to go.
When the two arrived at the Wind Base, Zhang Qin Feng headed straight to the Heavy-Engineering Department for Adam and Frank. There's something he'd like them to make.
As for Satella, she returned to the Armed Force's Building to update the recent battle report.
Victor, Marvin, and Valerian were called over to Zhang Qin Feng's place next to discuss what they're going to do.
About three days later, the first prototype that came from putting the scraps together is complete. To test the reliability of this prototype, Zhang Qin Feng had Marvin follows Satella's team to the motorway.
Going along with them is the third Reprinter Unit constructed by the system. It took Zhang Qin Feng a while to collect the materials, but this unit seems to be a much better version than the previous two.
This is due to the update in the blueprint function that came from recycling the waste. A more efficient Reprinter Unit is born by putting on thousands of electrical components, designs, and uses together.
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"Marvin, we'll be handling the stray zombies around us. Just do what you have to do," said Satella. To their surprise, the number of zombies today is more than what they expected. A smile can be seen on Satella's face because she's been itching for a fight.
The reason she seems eager to fight was none other than a metal-skeleton frame attached to her.
Through everyone's effort in putting the pieces together, the engineers assembled ten exoskeleton prototypes through the details from the "Avalon" jumpsuit and parts Zhang Qin Feng found from the pile of waste.
The powerful processing ability of Stein also helps in deciphering part of the usage of this so-called "Avalon" jumpsuit.
From the number of data the system successfully recover, this equipment is indeed something created after the outbreak of the viruses.
Based on the data, the Avalon Jumpsuit was primarily designed to enhance a soldier's performance. But the project was scrapped later because it was not in demand. This research was picked up not long after the outbreak to boost the survival rate, but they went missing before the study progressed.
The researchers were likely infected or eaten by the zombies before they could progress with this study.
Right now, the ten prototypes Satella had here are nothing more than a continuation of that dream. Even Zhang Qin Feng has less than 30% confidence that this prototype could create the miracle he's searching for.
"Let's do it!" Satella ordered. She knows that nothing would get done on their first time. But at the same time, nothing would ever get done if they give up before they started. The others might have a question in their mind, but not Satella.
For the sake of Zhang Qin Feng, she's willing to do what he asked, to the point of repeating it a thousand times until she couldn't do it anymore.
"Four men with me. The other six will start moving the materials over to the Reprinter Unit! Load the materials the moment it was done!" Satella ordered.
She led half of her team to move forward as they started to clear the pack of zombies coming at them. As for Marvin, he monitored each prototype's performance while setting up the Reprinter Unit.
The time they took is significantly slower than before due to the number of tasks they're doing. But the result was much better than before as the motorway was cleaner compared to before. Using the Reprinter Unit also allowed them to come up with an instant solution for damaged parts along the road further ahead.
But they barely managed to went more than a-tenth of the motorway today. It seems that while the squad was able to make use of the equipment, it was pointless if the power supply couldn't keep up with the task.
They came back after going out for barely half a day. The Reprinter Unit that went along with them was already out of power by the time it returned. Unsure of its was lucky or not, the ten exoskeleton prototypes were helpful in this situation.
Except for Marvin, who doesn't have one on him, the ten people cooperate as they lifted the Reprinter Unit up into the truck to be brought back.
But then, it becomes a question if Zhang Qin Feng can develop a solution for this matter.
"Feng. Clearing the bridge is much easier, but the problem now is the distance and power supply. We can't keep going over there and come back because the Reprinter Unit is out of power. Furthermore, the exoskeleton prototype is running out of juice too."
"If this problem happened when we got attacked by something big like a Tyrant, it would spell our death for sure," Satella said based on her experience.
"Indeed." Zhang Qin Feng nodded. What Satella said wasn't wrong, but development and improvement cannot be made in a night or two. He would still need the data from Marvin to come up with a solution.
Even with Stein in his head, Zhang Qin Feng would still need to process the report and run thousand of simulations before he's confident about the modification.
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