Xyrin Empire-Chapter 284 - Scorpion

Chapter 284: Chapter 284: Scorpion?

Chapter 284: Chapter 284: Scorpion?

Shadow K City, Imperial Research Center.

Let’s just ignore the noteworthy name above…

This is the Data Analysis Room located in the Seventh Research and Development Zone of the Research Center. Although it’s called a “room,” it’s actually a spacious machine hall almost the size of a basketball court. The most powerful supercomputers from both the Pandora Army and the Revenge Army are linked together and converge in this room. Dozens of exceptional Xyrin Technicians work here around the clock, comparing the latest data they’ve extracted with the vast ocean of data from the memory cores of the commanders of the Pandora Army. Then they distribute it to an even larger research team below to analyze and demonstrate the possibilities of their combinations, in the hope of recovering a mere fraction of the advanced technology of the bygone Xyrin Empire. In this fully powered research institution, the results produced every minute are high-tech accomplishments that humans on Earth might take hundreds of years to research.

The entire analysis room is a regular rectangle and is divided into an inner and an outer part. In the central area of the analysis room, a small, several dozen square meter-sized square recessed area, partitioned by various instruments and energy grids, serves as the inner zone, which is also the most important part of the analysis room. All the research groups’ work revolves around the data transmitted from this small recessed area. Considering the importance level of the research being conducted in this analysis room, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that this small square area is the brain of the entire Imperial Research Center.

In the outer area of the analysis room, there are four well-organized workgroups, symmetrically distributed at the four corners of the room. Each group is composed of more than a dozen senior Xyrin Technicians. They are enthusiastic and tireless, sorting out the massive information rushing across the instruments in front of them at an astonishing speed. In their minds, a larger stream of data is exchanged at high speed through the spiritual network formed by all the Xyrin Technicians. This dual, relatively independent yet collaborative data processing system functions like an amazingly efficient conversion machine, constantly piecing together information extracted from Visca’s memory core onto the data fragments we already possess.

When we arrived, the entire analysis room had already entered a new round of work fervor. Even the visit of two Emperors and a host of high-ranking officials only warranted a few key responsible individuals to spare a moment to turn back and salute. After these dedicated scientists returned to their positions, we followed Sivis into the central area of the analysis room.

Visca, who arrived before us, had already entered his “workstation.” In that square area, recessed about half a meter deep, an object resembling an open-style hibernation chamber, or colloquially known as an “eggshell chamber,” was set up. Visca was lying half-bored inside, surrounded by data pipelines, with three scanning probes floating above his little head, flickering with faint light. The person being scanned, however, was yawning profusely below.

“Yawns… Brother… I’m so sleepy…”

“The memory core scanning process can induce a sensation of drowsiness,” Sivis reported meticulously in a military fashion, “but Visca is currently awake and you may ask anything you like.”

“Visca, how do you feel?”

I curiously asked the little girl in front of me. Although I knew that this “memory core scan” wasn’t harmful, thanks to human science fiction movies, the scene before me still involuntarily made me think of the Declaration of Human Rights…

“Just really sleepy… Yawns… and… so sleepy…”

Visca mumbled drowsily, and by the time she reached the last sentence, she had begun to lightly snore.

I now seriously doubt what Sivis meant by “awake” earlier…

“This…” Visca, who had just been described as “awake” by Sivis, was now fast asleep, leaving Sivis visibly embarrassed, “Theory always has its small deviations…”

“She undergoes these scans every day? Is this harmless to the body?”

“Of course not. On the contrary, such scanning reactivates the subject’s memory core, much like a good deep sleep is beneficial for the body. And Visca only needs less than half an hour of data extraction each day, yet the data obtained is already enough to keep the entire research center’s departments working overtime.”

I was relieved to hear Sivis’s words. Then, I gently patted the face of Visca, who was already snoring away. Even in her sleep, her lips curved into a slight smile.

“Weren’t you saying that you have obtained new results? Show me.”

“Of course, at the Third Test Field, please follow me.”

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“The Third Test Field is specifically designed for the trial production of new weapons or mechs,” Sivis led us around various platforms that displayed all sorts of experimental units, between an enormous hall equal to the area of five or six soccer fields combined. As the leader of the entire research center, Visca showed a slight sense of pride while introducing everything to us.

Well, in fact, by convention, this important department of a military research base should be led by Pandora, the Great General—but just like you can’t expect a certain Emperor Chen to understand what a V-shaped spaceship formation is, you can’t expect a certain Loli to understand what overall planning is, can you?

Most of the equipment placed in this test field were semi-finished products. Despite their utmost zeal for work, given the severe lack of core technologies, Xyrin Technicians could only manage to produce these semi-finished products, which has always been a source of great shame for the respected scientists. Now, however, with some key data supplemented by Visca, many of these items were gradually being perfected, including this one in front of us… warrior?

“Xyrin Armored Scorpion, simply called Scorpion,” Sivis knocked proudly on the alloy shell of the tall warrior in front of us, and the crisp sound of metal reverberated, “Of course, that wasn’t its original name. We came up with the name Scorpion, because its appearance indeed closely resembles that of scorpions on Earth.”

Uh… Scorpion… okay, quite fitting…

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A bizarre Xyrin Combat Soldier, that’s the only way to describe it, or maybe a female Xyrin Apostle? It certainly seemed so from the upper body. The new type of warrior before us, the Xyrin Armored Scorpion, featured a young woman with shoulder-length brown curly hair and a handsome face, clad in a pure black streamlined alloy armor. However, I reserved my opinion on how much protection this armor, barely larger than a shoulder pad, could offer. Below this pretty lady’s torso… was a mechanical scorpion nearly three meters long, formidable and frightening…

Fierce, absolutely fierce…

I don’t know if it was deliberate, but the mechanical limbs on the lower body of the Xyrin Armored Scorpion were only half-covered by armor, with most of the limbs exposed as mechanical constructs. The metallic components and pipelines reflected a chilling metallic luster, exuding a strange and unyielding vibe. Academically speaking, from a standpoint of terror, I’d give it a ninety out of a hundred… And on the back of the Scorpion’s body, the only part covered by armor, was a huge blood-red Xyrin Military Emblem, with the hard-lined words “ZK-0001” written below it. At the end of its over three-meter-long mechanical scorpion tail, which curled upwards, was an alloy-shelled, shuttle-shaped “poison needle.” I had every reason to believe that thing was a lethal weapon…

“Alright, is this called violent aesthetics?”

After slightly collecting myself from the shock of seeing such a wild beauty, I quipped, tugging at the corners of my mouth.

The designers of the Xyrin Empire are indeed very creative…

“This is the Scorpion’s general combat form,” Sivis introduced me to the features of the Armored Scorpion, “In normal circumstances, she can retract her combat limbs into Other Space and switch to a normal body, which helps to reduce her volume for ease of transportation in small-scale troops.”

Qianqian gently nudged my arm and whispered, “Ah Jun, another beauty, huh?”

“…Little brat!”

Unlike me, merely an outsider only good for watching the excitement, Sandora and Pandora were genuine experts. The two of them circled the Armored Scorpion, which seemed to be in standby mode and asleep, and then Sandora ordered, “Get her moving.”

“Yes,” Sivis responded, turning to press a few buttons on the platform beneath the Armored Scorpion.

After a sizzling sound of energy flowing, the magnetic locks that secured the test subject’s six legs (…) sank into the ground beneath the platform, while bluish glows began to roam over the mechanical components on the lower half of the large scorpion.

When the blue glow completely vanished, the Armored Scorpion slowly opened her eyes.

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