Pinnacle Armor

The results of this attack were not as good as expected. After returning to the base camp, Moore ignored the rest and immediately called people above the rank of colonel behind closed doors to hold an introspection meeting.

Xin Xunyang didn't need to attend the meeting. After handing Shuguang over to the repairers, he went back to his tent directly.

Hearing the sound of him coming in, Lu Xingxi stopped the work in hand, and before Xin Xunyang approached, he pressed a certain button, and the cover of the small machine tool quietly slid up and closed, covering what Lu Xingxi was just tinkering with.

Seeing this, Xin Xunyang was taken aback.

He and Lu Xingxi had been together for a long time, except when they were not familiar with each other back then, he had never seen the other party show such a defensive posture.

"What are you doing, why don't you let me see it?" As he spoke, Xin Xunyang walked over, but when he wanted to open the lid, Lu Xingxi stopped him.

"It's not interesting for you to look at the semi-finished product. I'll let you know when it's finished." Lu Xingxi said.

Originally, Xin Xunyang rarely interfered with Lu Xingxi's affairs, and he never asked about the other party's research content.However, it was probably caused by everyone's curiosity, the more Lu Xingxi refused to let him see it, the more he paid attention to it, and finally the two of them simply moved around the machine tool - they said it was hands-on, but in fact it was Xin Xunyang who let the water go. Otherwise, how could Lu Xingxi's skill be enough for him?

At the end of the trouble, Xin Xunyang even forgot why he and Lu Xingxi were in a stalemate in the first place, seized the opportunity to twist the opponent's hand, and took advantage of the opportunity to push him down on the machine tool. Looking at Lu Xingxi's bright black eyes, Xin Xunyang Slowly lowering their heads, their faces were so close that their breath could be heard.

When the atmosphere was ambiguous, someone suddenly coughed.

Xin and Lu turned their faces away, and saw Han Boqing keeping his head up and looking up at the sky, saying, "You guys should pay attention to the time and place."

"It's the rest time now, this is where we live." Standing up straight slowly, Xin Xunyang gave a wry smile, "So you're actually jealous, right?"

"Hmm... Lonely, I'm really jealous." Han Boqing rubbed his nose.

After this period of cooperation, the relationship between him and Xin Xunyang has improved a lot. Although the two still bicker, there is no hostility.

Breaking away from Xin Xunyang's hand, Lu Xingxi straightened his collar and asked, "Are you looking for him or me?"

"You." Han Boqing admitted frankly, "There is something wrong with the teacher's mecha. The military technicians can't tell where the problem is, so I want you to take a look."

Hearing that there was something wrong with Red Lotus, Lu Xingxi immediately lost the mood to joke, and immediately asked Han Boqing to lead the way, and Xin Xunyang followed. He was tired of watching Salfi's Grim Reaper, but he hadn't seen Moore's Red Lotus yet. Having visited it up close, this is a great opportunity to feast your eyes.

Moreover, to Xin Xunyang, Red Lotus is not only a legend of Starlight Alliance, but also the mecha that Lu Xingxi devoted all his efforts to in his previous life. He has been curious about it for a long time.

Seeing Han Boqing bring Lu Xingxi in, the technicians in the military looked a little ugly, but they didn't have any hostility, they just felt embarrassed.

They are also experienced technicians, and they have been responsible for the maintenance of Red Lotus for many years. As a result, when something goes wrong, it doesn't work at all, and they have to ask other technicians to look at it, which is a bit embarrassing.

However, Lu Xingxi didn't care about the psychological activities of these technicians. At this moment, there was only this semi-squatting vermilion mech left in his field of vision.

After so many years, even the teacher who taught me has passed away, but Honglian has not changed.

After controlling his excitement a little bit, Lu Xingxi quickly entered the working state with a serious face. While asking the military technicians about the situation, he checked the places in doubt by himself.After confirming that the external damage was not enough to cause Red Lotus to fail to start normally, Lu Xingxi turned his attention to Red Lotus's operating system.

As soon as they heard that he planned to enter the cockpit, the other technicians showed embarrassing expressions on their faces.

Although Lu Xingxi came to help, he is a peripheral person after all, if Moore's mecha system is tampered with by him...

"I asked the teacher's opinion before I came here, and he said that the repair work is entrusted to Lu Xingxi." Seeing the stalemate between the two sides, Han Boqing broke the siege.

Only then did the others swallow their dissuading words.

Over the years, Red Lotus has not changed at all. In order to match the replacement of new equipment, its operating system has also been modified a lot. However, the core artificial intelligence is still the same as back then. Lu Xingxi discovered it as soon as he logged into the operating system.At that time, what he contributed the most was the development of this artificial intelligence, which is why his name is not known to the world even though he participated in the production of Red Lotus. Except for professionals, people always pay more attention to mechas itself, regardless of what kind of artificial intelligence they carry.

However, what surprised Lu Xingxi even more was yet to come.

After finding out that Honglian's fault was mainly due to radiation interference when destroying the transmission tower, and the program was a little messed up, Lu Xingxi started to reorganize it and eliminate the bug.Then, in order to make the system run more efficiently, he tried to connect with artificial intelligence to recode the required parts.As a result, just as the command was sent, he saw the screen flicker and a line of words popped out.

land?haven't seen you for a long time.

This is Honglian's artificial intelligence saying hello to itself!

Lu Xingxi was so surprised that all the movements of his hands stopped.

Since his rebirth, he didn't dare to recognize anyone he knew before, and he was mentally prepared to seal up the past.Unexpectedly, it was now recognized by an artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is different from human beings, it does not know the so-called life and death, and it will not be confused by appearance.The way it judges the identity of the person in contact with it is to find evidence from the other party's operating habits or programming techniques.So even though Lu Xingxi had changed his identity, when he reunited with Honglian, his "old friend", he was still judged by the other party.

It's a wonderful feeling.

Lu Xingxi originally thought that he didn't care if anyone remembered, but when he suddenly found that Honglian still remembered him, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

At least, his previous life did not leave any traces.

After the turbulent mood calmed down, Lu Xingxi looked down at the people below who were getting more and more nervous because of the change in his face, and smiled relaxedly, "It's okay, it will be resolved soon."

Meticulously rewritten Honglian's operating system to make it more suitable for Moore's current operating habits. Lu Xingxi erased the traces of Honglian's artificial intelligence communicating with him just now, and tried to make Honglian move. After confirming that there is no problem, This came out of the cockpit.

Everyone was only happy that Moore's mecha was repaired, but Xin Xunyang noticed that Lu Xingxi seemed...in a good mood.

"Is it so happy to meet this old mecha?" Lowering his voice, Xin Xunyang asked with a bit of jealousy unconsciously.

"Honglian will be angry if she hears this." Lu Xingxi narrowed his eyes, and was silent for a while, then smiled more obviously, "It still remembers me."

Xin Xunyang was taken aback, and after looking back at Honglian with an incredulous look, he rubbed Lu Xingxi's hair knowingly, "No more regrets now?"

"En." Lu Xingxi nodded.

In the next second, Xin Xunyang's hand moved away from Lu Xingxi's head, wrapped his arms around his shoulders and neck, moved closer, and whispered through gritted teeth: "Then let's discuss, you didn't look like you smiled when you saw me recently, but now A question about being so happy to be amused by a mech?"

Lu Xingxi looked at the serious eyes of the other party, only to belatedly realized that Xin Xunyang seemed to be jealous of the mech again out of boredom...

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After the introspection meeting, the Alliance Expeditionary Force did not rest for too long. People who had stayed near the energy belt to observe the situation sent back news that the fleet of the New Federation seemed to have taken action in recent days.

After consolidating all the data of the last ground battle, the alliance has analyzed the approximate composition of the launch tower. In this rematch, the battleship is directly equipped with a pulse gun specially designed for the launch tower.In this way, there is no need to drop ground troops, and they can aim and shoot directly from outer space, destroying the function of the launch tower.

"The geeks in the institute will be very happy. This method of combat does not need to destroy the exterior of the tower. They can drag one back and take it apart to play slowly."

Salfi's casual remark made Lu Xingxi's mind instantly see the scene of technicians in their 50s, 80s, and even [-]s and [-]s sitting on the floor like kindergarten children stacking blocks to dismantle the towers in Lu Xingxi's mind. shook his head.

As the fleet of the Alliance Expeditionary Force approached again, the Space Force of the New Federation shrank to the ground, and it seemed that they were going to rely on the launch tower and the star beasts to deal with the expeditionary force, and they were responsible for picking up the leak after the battle was over.

As a result, the New Federation did not expect that the alliance's actions this time would be so big and unrestrained, and it launched an attack directly from the outer universe.

"This is impossible! Don't the towers have cloaking devices? How did they lock on from such a distance?!"

When the first launch tower was directly turned into a scrap metal pile by the pulse gun of the alliance battleship, many exclamations of this kind sounded in the new federation.

However, no matter whether the New Federation is willing to accept this reality or not, it is an indisputable fact that the transmission tower they rely on has been easily destroyed by the Alliance.

Without the deterrence of the launch tower, the Alliance Expeditionary Force rushed to the ground fiercely like a wild beast.

The improved resonance disk played a big role in the battle against the star beasts, which led to the failure of the Knights of the New Federation's plan to take the initiative with the help of the star beasts.Later, they were even more horrified to discover that some of the mechas of the alliance could repair themselves... This was a bigger blow than finding out that the dual protection of the launch tower and the star beast was useless in actual combat!

The part of the mechas that were converted to biological armor took the lead, followed by ordinary mechas and land-use suspension tanks.On the contrary, the demoralized New Federation army retreated steadily. In the end, some of them directly abandoned the battlefield and retreated in the direction of the old star;

In the final analysis, the agreement made by the high-level military, political officials, and the remnants of the empire at the beginning of the split alliance could not represent the wishes of the lower-level soldiers and civilians at all.

When the New Boundless Federation and the Starlight Alliance were evenly matched, due to the situation, these people at the bottom obeyed the side that ruled them, but when the Alliance Expeditionary Force showed their power, they quickly fell back to their original place. faction, regard the new federation as nothing.

This kind of sloppy behavior may make people feel uncomfortable, but it is the little wisdom that ordinary people rely on to survive.

In fact, if it weren't for the discord within the new federation, the expeditionary force wouldn't have won so smoothly.

Taking advantage of the momentum of victory, Moore did not stay on the recovered planet, but urged the logistics supplies to keep up, and directly led the team to pursue the retreating New Federation Space Force.

The two sides attacked and defended each other along the way, and finally entangled and landed in the northern hemisphere of the old star.

The glorious era of the Boundless Empire has passed for a long time, but the remnants of the Empire are still unwilling to give up their once "noble" status.After the alliance was split this time, the remnants still chose Emperor Star (the alliance called "Old Star") as their capital, as if they could regain their former glory by doing so.

Now, the battlefield has finally moved to the old star, that is, the expeditionary force has entered the heart of the new federation, sounding the death knell for the remnants of the empire.

Unlike other planets ruled by the new federation, the old star, as its most important capital, was thoroughly cleaned up by the remnants of the empire. The "untouchables" in their eyes were either driven to other planets to exploit resources, or were killed or sent to other planets for resistance. Enter the research institute to make materials, so it can also be said that the purification degree of the old star is very high.After the expeditionary army arrived here, they encountered the fiercest resistance in this expedition. The forces of the remnants of the empire were mobilized, and the strangest and largest mutant star beast that everyone had ever seen appeared on the battlefield so far.

It is more than 20 meters tall, with two triangular heads on its neck and bat-like wings on its back.And what's even more strange is that this star beast can split - when it was attached to the resonance plate for the first time, it used splitting to defuse the attack of the resonance plate, and the split star beast also had wings on its back , whose body shape is like a slightly enlarged wasp. It moves swiftly and will penetrate into the mecha along the gaps in the armor to destroy the mech, causing great suffering to those responsible for besieging this star beast.

Afterwards, five more star beasts that split like two-headed star beasts appeared. Due to the huge difference in appearance, there were some differences in their fighting methods, but they were exactly the same only in terms of tyranny and fierceness.Moore estimates that this is the last hidden power of the new federation.

Fortunately, the alliance launched the expedition in advance. If it takes longer... Thinking of the sight of such mutated star beasts all over the battlefield, even Moore, who has been invincible on the battlefield for many years, can't help but feel palpitations.

Staring at the image of the ground battle, Lu Xingxi didn't dare to take his gaze away from Xin Xunyang for even an instant.

Xin Xunyang is the main force in the battle against the two-headed star beast. The people on the ship saw that he came and went freely, and could cover other knights from time to time. They all thought that this battle was under Xin Xunyang's control, and only Lu Xingxi knew. Dawn has no special precautions against the miniature star beast, and Knight Xin Xunyang bears the same risk as everyone else.

Lu Xingxi maintained a calm face, but actually his hands were covered in cold sweat.

He hated the feeling that he could only watch from the sidelines. However, this expedition, on the one hand, because the military needed Lu Xingxi's technical support, and on the other hand, Xin Xunyang did not agree with Lu Xingxi to go to the battlefield with him out of safety considerations.

Feeling that there was no point in continuing to stand still, Lu Xingxi was thinking about whether he could do something to help Xin Xunyang and others turn the situation around, when he glanced at the radar scanning chart on the side, and suddenly found something wrong.

"These red dots... are people leaving the old star?"

Hearing Lu Xingxi's question, the non-commissioned officer in charge of observing the radar nodded, "I discovered it about 5 minutes ago, but it looks like it's just an escape boat or something. Maybe it's a civilian fleeing?"

"It's impossible for innocent civilians to exist on the old planet. The current situation is wrong." Lu Xingxi said calmly, "The current war situation is obviously more beneficial to the new federation, why do they want to run away instead? Even if they want to avoid the flames of war, it's not necessary Fly directly away from the old star. With the obsession of those in the remnant party with their 'Emperor Star'... No! Captain, can you order the launch of the detector? Maybe the new federation has some tricks."

"Now that the place is in such a mess, what the detector detects may not be accurate!" Having said that, the captain still gave the order.

Later, the detection results of the detector came back, and there was nothing particularly abnormal.

Do you really care about yourself?

In the video sent back, relying on the superiority in numbers, the alliance knights have already dealt with two mutant star beasts, and the third one seems to be about to fail, and the balance of victory is gradually tilting towards the alliance.

Maybe I'm just too nervous...

Although he thought so in his heart, Lu Xingxi was unwilling to relax. Finally, his hard work paid off, and he found something abnormal in the real-time data sent back from the detector.

"The gravity in this area of ​​the old star seems to be changing?"

Hearing Lu Xingxi's whisper, Chuning leaned over to observe with him. After a while, his face changed suddenly, "The gravity in this area is getting stronger! And this phenomenon is still spreading around. Could it be that those guys from the New Federation... "

"Go and explain the situation to the captain, and let the fleet over this area withdraw." Pushing Chuning, Lu Xingxi contacted Xin Xunyang while watching the values ​​on the light curtain increasing faster and faster, " Xun Yang, the new federation seems to have used a gravity field weapon, and they are planning to let the expeditionary force bury the old star with them! Hurry up..."

Before Lu Xingxi finished speaking, in the image sent back, one could clearly see a black ball constantly spreading on the ground of the old star.

It's a black hole!Black holes created by gravity field weapons!

The star beasts who were fighting with the alliance seemed to have sensed the apocalypse, and left their opponents in a panic, even if they were bombarded a few times, they would try their best to escape.Although the knights' sensing ability was slightly worse than that of the star beasts, they quickly reacted and evacuated from the dangerous area at full speed.

The black holes that appeared on the old star became bigger and bigger, and even the fleet in the outer universe felt threatened and had to withdraw.

At the last moment, what Lu Xingxi saw from the video was the moment when the black ball representing death was approaching the dawn——