The Death List Novel - Chapter 540
Chapter 540 Exercise
“Qin Lun, will they come?” Bahrain’s voice rang out from Qin Lun’s soul imprint.
In this evangelical world, the Apostle guild channel has been sealed by the starry sky. However, everyone quickly realizes that there are no guild channels that are the same.
First of all, this world is connected to the starry sky, so there is no need to rely on the guild channel to hide the conversation between Apostle. The second reason was that they had to sit on military armor in the following battles, and they could completely rely on technological means or telepathy to communicate with their companions.
Angel Keith’s clone broke through the physical laws of ordinary living things and possessed a wonderful telepathic ability. Through the spread of the biological energy of the man-machine armor, telepathy could be achieved within a given distance. Instead, Apostle and Keith pilots piloted military armor that needed to be communicated through technological means.
“It’s hard to say. Robin is a cautious man. He’s likely to adopt the same tactic as us. It depends on which side can’t stand it anymore.” Qin Lun smiled indifferently. “Bahrain, don’t worry so much about winning or losing. We’re just here to test our bodies, not necessarily winning!”
Qin Lun scanned his surroundings. Apart from Bahrain and himself, Frank and Sawa were hiding behind a large meteor. They seemed to be very patient. Only Bobby, who was the youngest, looked a little irritated and slowly moved from the back of the line to the front.
There were a total of six Tier 2, three Tier 1, and one Apostle who hadn’t been transferred to the Gospel World. Kieran, Robin, Bahrain, Huo Biao, Bowie, and Robben were all Second Grade Apostle. The younger Wind Elementalist Bobby, the only female Apostle’s Sawa, and the younger brother Dean were First Grade Apostle. Frank did not change his profession.
Of course, the only one who hadn’t changed his profession was Frank, and his true strength had also reached the level of a profession change.
Although the Apostle of Qin Lun’s group was relatively weak, the gap between Second Grade Apostle and First Grade Apostle in this world had been narrowed. The essential difference between Tier 2 and Tier 1 Apostle lies in the heart of the strong and the perfection of Apostle’s skill system.
In the Gospel World, the increase in Apostle’s combat strength due to the Heart of the Strong was ignored. The replacement skill he possessed would affect the outcome of the battle, but it was also not the main factor determining victory or defeat.
Qin Lun sometimes wondered if the Lost Party had already planned to enter the Gospel World. This was because this world was the most advantageous to their current situation. After all, the Apostle team that was tracking them had also narrowed the gap in strength, and it could no longer reflect the decisive role of a Third Grade Apostle.
After descending on Apostle and testing the compatibility of their armor, Captain Marquez of Faith deliberately slowed down his advance and used the little time left before the battle to allow Apostle to adapt to the new battle mode in the cosmic starry sky.
Ten Apostle were divided into two groups, one led by Guild Leader Robin and the other by Kieran, who was the deputy Guild Leader. Although it was just a mock battle, the Apostle competed and excitedly turned the test into a semi-live combat drill. The reason why it was said to be semi-actual combat was because they were using non-destructive light weapons, not particle beam weapons.
The strategy for the battle was set by Qin Lun. He arranged an ambush based on the map of this region of space. The location was located in a 5,000-brake small meteorite belt. A unit of length in the universe in Giese, equal to about one light second in a flash, nearly three hundred thousand kilometers (300,000 km)
Although the Battleship Creed was as large as a city, most of the spacecraft that could move freely in space without the gravitational pull of the Star System, such as the Soldiers, surpassed the speed of the third universe. They could travel more than ten kilometers in a second, and could reach a maximum speed of more than a hundred kilometers. It was simply impossible for them to carry out combat tests on the battleship.
When he put forward this plan, Qin Lun was surprised to discover that there was no objection from their group. He couldn’t help but sigh with admiration that these people’s nerves were extremely thick.
The meteorite belt in space was made up of countless meteors of all sizes, the size of a basketball, the size of an asteroid, and its circumference was no less than several hundred kilometers. These meteors ranged from a few kilometers to over a thousand kilometers. Even though the length of these meteors was in kilometers, in front of a mecha that exceeded the speed of the third universe, it was no less dangerous than the sea of devils that covered the rocks.
In fact, Qin Lun really didn’t care about the outcome of this battle. The test itself made everyone used to fighting in space. Using light weapons couldn’t show their true combat strength. The process of fighting was like playing with a family.
However, he had his own motives in proposing the plan. As he had said, Robin was cautious by nature. He would probably adopt the same strategy as him. If he stayed in ambush, the outcome of this battle would depend on which side could not hold back first.
After a few days of contact, Qin Lun had a general understanding of the team members’ personalities. Among them, Bobby, the youngest, and Huo Biao, who had a violent personality, were the least patient.
Qin Lun’s idea was very simple. Testing the mecha was only part of the plan. Another purpose was to test the other members of the team. This relatively patient battle was about waiting for someone in the team to make a mistake.
Regardless of whether it was Huo Biao, Bobby, or the other members, if they were to drag down the guild on impulse, the others would also be alerted. Their guild was formed on an ad hoc basis. Although their members were all elites and were very strong, they needed to unite in the next battle. The sooner they became more vigilant, the less risk they would face in the future.
Qin Lun guessed that not only did he have this thought, even Robin might have this thought. The two Guild Leader might be holding back their anger, and the more fellows they wanted to make mistakes, the better.
“They’re coming, they’re coming!” Just as Qin Lun was thinking, Bobby’s excited shout sounded in his ears.
“Bobby, come back! There’s only one dot of light. It’s bait. Don’t go over!” Bahrain shouted angrily when he saw the fiery-red soldier appear from the hidden spot.
“It doesn’t matter. Just hide. Bait? I’ll go play with him, haha!” Bobby shouted excitedly. The fiery red mecha was covered with a layer of red light. A long fiery red tail flame was dragged out from the dark universe and charged towards the light blue soldiers at the edge of the meteor belt like lightning.
Qin Lun’s eyes lit up as he watched Bobby’s mech emit a fiery red energy flame. He frowned slightly.
More than 70 per cent of the armour used to descend on Apostle consisted of biological tissue, while the remaining 30 per cent consisted of metal composites, including various communications devices, optical brain centres and search fire-control radars.
About 3-5% of the 70% of biological tissues belong to Angel Keith’s clonal tissues, which are the core controls of body parts. The brain of a soldier-man-machine-armor descended on Apostle itself, of course, and the clonal tissue responsible for controlling the body parts was similar to a neural network.
This part of the organism has crystallized and is hidden deep within the various biological components. When Kieran entered the cockpit at the inner end of the armor, he felt a cold snake-like object. It was actually the Jannamer tissue that connected the crystal control to the sensory nerves that descended on Apostle.
The starry sky protected the Apostle Soul Seal from the physical and mental contamination of the Jannamer organization, on the one hand, it did not conform to the laws of battle in this world, and on the other hand, it protected the Apostle Soul Seal from the physical and mental contamination of the Jannamer organization.
Even though this layer of Laws outside the Apostle Soul Seal was as thin as smoke, with its protection, no creature in the Gospel World could affect the will of the Apostles other than the spiritual skills of other Apostles or Samsaras.
Apostle was a soldier’s brain, biological tissue was a soldier’s body, and external attachments were armor and weapons. However, as a combat troop, apart from two things, the soldier also had another important core component, which was the “heart” that powered the mecha.
A soldier’s motive heart was an eternal particle melting furnace made up of clones. It was roughly the size of an ordinary human’s fist and was buried deep within the soldier’s body.
The Eternal Particle Melting Furnace uses the pulsed elements, that is, the super-heavy elements that cause gravity depression and produce pulsed waves, as energy source, and converts the pulsed energy into biological energy through the melting furnace structure to provide the weapon-man-machine armor with the pulsed energy. Only limited to the body materials, this energy conversion efficiency is not high, most of the energy will be recycled by the pulse elements.
The Eternal Particle Fusion Furnace contained about 100 grams of pulsed elemental energy. It was so small that even the naked eye could not see it. However, the energy it provided was enough for soldiers to move for over a thousand years. In a narrow sense, it was equivalent to eternal power. The furnace is also the iconic technology that allowed the Githian civilization to advance into the Third Cosmos Age.
In fact, the normal activities of a soldier-machine armor usually required less than 5% of the Eternal Particle Fusion Furnace’s energy to maintain its activity. No matter how skilled and fierce the non-Apostle Keith pilots were, they were still unable to convert more than 30% of the furnace’s energy. This was because the composite material of the Weapon-Machine Armor was unable to withstand the small amount of elemental pulses that leaked out of the furnace during the conversion process.
Apostle, on the other hand, often relies on high-coverage organisms to increase energy conversion to 50-70 per cent. Of course, it would be a little unrealistic if he converted it upwards. Because more than 70% of the energy conversion was in a dangerous area, even the biological tissues of the soldiers would not be able to withstand the pulses. Once more than 70% of the energy was converted, the soldier-machine armor would gradually disintegrate.
After more than 50% of the energy was converted, the elemental pulse waves would leak out from the surface of the armor and turn into all kinds of eye-catching flames. The color of the flame itself was rich in all the chemical colors, but after being filtered by the body, it would become a single color.
As for which color it was, it depended on the body and the characteristics of the body that descended on Apostle.
Now, Bobby’s mecha emitted a fiery red flame. This was the sign that he had catalyzed the mecha’s power to more than 50%. Such an eye-catching attack had almost rendered the ambush by Qin Lun and the others meaningless.
“FUCK!” Qin Lun heard Bahrain cursing softly. Obviously, he was also very dissatisfied with Bobby’s unauthorized actions. If this were to be put into actual combat, his companions might suffer unnecessary losses.
“Qin Lun, Deputy Guild Leader, with Bobby doing this, it would be meaningless for us to ambush him again. Shall we charge out together and eat the enemy’s bait first?” Sawa’s calm reminder came from Qin Lun’s mind.
“Alright, you three form a triangular formation to cover Bobby!” Qin Lun rolled his eyes, and an idea floated into his mind. He smiled and commanded, “If I continue stealth, I might be able to give the other party a surprise!”