Chapter 226: Shattered Dome
After making up his mind, Qiao Lu asked Moss to disguise a new identity for him and Liu Peiqiang, and the two of them came together to the Mecha Hunter Base in Hong Kong Bay, which they called the Shattered Dome.
As its name suggests, it's a massive dome-like military base that opens and closes like petals, from where helicopters can lift mechs and transport them to where they need to be on a mission.
When Qiao Lu and Liu Peiqiang arrived, the mecha hunter Eureka Raider, whom they had seen in Sydney before, had been transported here and was slowly being transported through the dome to the warehouse.
No matter how you look at it, the delivery helicopters that can lift a thousand-ton behemoth like a mechhunter are too powerful.
With just six helicopters, the 1,850-ton Eureka Raider can be lifted with an average load of 300 tons, and I really don't know how.
The fact that such a powerful helicopter was only used by them to transport mechs was really outrageous.
This technology is very worthy of Qiao Lu to collect and use it for the Wandering Earth.
Not to mention anything else, in the future, just if you want to send some behemoth to the planetary engine transmission tower, you can use this extremely black technology carrier helicopter.
The gate of the Shattered Dome was a typical military base gate, and they almost wanted to make it into one to prevent the monsters from attacking it.
The guards at the door stopped Qiao Lu and Liu Peiqiang, and asked in non-standard Mandarin:
"What are you doing here?"
"We're here for the mech pilot audition." Qiao Lu took out the poster he saw, which was why they were here.
However, the guard in charge of guarding the gate showed a puzzled look and said to himself:
"Do we still hire drivers?"
Liu Peiqiang on the side asked, "Don't you recruit it?" ”
"Wait a minute, I'll ask inside." The guard said this and walked into the duty room, picked up a communicator and began to contact the superiors in the base.
After some exchanges, the guards came out and said, "We are only recruiting reserve pilots now, unless the active pilot is injured or killed, you will not have the opportunity to drive the mecha, is this okay?" ”
After all, there are only four Mecha Hunters left in the Shattered Dome now, so naturally there is no need for so many active pilots, only a pilot who can be used as a backup.
Many people come to the selection with the dream of piloting a mecha, so when they hear that the reserve pilot does not have the opportunity to fly a mecha, they will naturally retreat.
Qiao Lu said: "It's okay, just back up." ”
He wasn't here to pilot the mech, all he needed was to get into the Shattered Dome.
As for whether you can drive a mecha, it depends on your strength, doesn't it?
"Then it depends on whether you can pass the test." The guard said very unoptimistically.
He knew very well that there were very few people who could pass the nerve sympathesy test, and most of the people who were pregnant with mechs fell directly on this threshold.
But none of this is a matter for Qiao Lu, any neuroempathy, it's all over if Moss is hacked.
The guards led the two into the interior of the Shattered Dome base, the last mech hunter base in the world and the last place to recruit mech pilots.
The two of them first passed through a long special passageway, and after the guards entered the code to open the door, they entered the hall of the Shattered Dome base.
The empty hall is full of equipment, all kinds of large machinery, countless workers rush to the middle, and from time to time there are forklifts full of goods whistling by.
One of the most striking is the four large mechs as tall as a hill in the base hall.
The first, Storm Crimson, has three arms of the fourth generation of Chinese mechas, which are 76 meters tall and weigh 1,722 tons. The head is a huge camera with zoom telescopic function, and each of the three arms needs a pilot to control, so it is a triplet - Wei Xiang, Wei Jin and Wei Hu - who control this mecha.
It's a pity that his third hand can't shoot laser rays, otherwise he would be able to say to the monster, "Join the glorious evolution!" ”
But it doesn't matter now, as long as Storm Crimson can fall into the hands of the Wandering Earth, his third hand, which was completely impractical, could be transformed into any heavy weapon.
Anyway, it is impossible for the Wandering Earth to allow this kind of war machine to use its three arms as melee weapons to fight the enemy hand-to-hand without any heavy weapons.
The second, Cherno-Alpha, the first generation of Russian mechs, is up to 84 meters high and weighs 2412 tons. The biggest, most powerful, and most defensible of all mechs, but slower.
Completely the result of Russian heavy industry, the Chernoalpha is magnificent, rugged, and domineering, and its head is a strange triangular head shape, making it look more like a steel monster than an elegant humanoid like other mechs.
As a first-generation mecha, he perfectly adhered to the concept of beating monsters to death, so he was equipped with only a pair of hydraulic iron fists like a pile driver.
The fighting method is also the simplest and roughest, with one hand around the monster's neck, and then the other hand turned into a hydraulic hammer, frantically driving piles on the monster's skull until the monster is beaten to death.
It can be said that Chernoalpha is the most perfect body that implements the original intention of the Mecha Hunter plan, and the monsters killed by him are definitely the ones that bleed the least, but died the worst.
The third, the Eureka Raider, Australia's fifth-generation mech, is 104 meters tall and weighs 1,850 tons. The most advanced mecha hunter at the moment, Qiao Lu has also seen the way this thing fights in Sydney.
The Eureka Raider emphasizes agility, with wrist blades on the arms, iron fists for heavy blows, and missiles on the chest, all emphasizing maneuvering speed. This mecha can attack from a distance and engage in hand-to-hand combat, and it also has a head escape pod, which can be said to be the essence of the previous mechas.
It's a pity that since missiles are still going to be used in the end, it completely goes against the original intention of the Mecha Hunter plan.
So this plan was scrapped by the time the Eureka Raiders came out, only to be replaced by the more unreliable Wall of Life project.
The last one, Dangerous Wanderer, the third-generation mecha of the United States, is a veritable protagonist mecha, and he is basically the last one to appear to solve the problem, who makes him the protagonist?
The head is a two-person side-by-side operation cabin, the chest is a 12IX nuclear-powered turbine engine, a built-in nuclear reactor, the legs are equipped with a 10kt gyro stabilizer, and the two-leg hydraulic power divider makes the combat movements more smooth, ensuring that the legs are balanced with each other, and the knee joints are driven by high agility and torque.
Each muscle unit is equipped with 40 engine units to enhance the body's athletic capacity, and the ankles are 08FS cooling drains, with built-in activated carbon, and seawater is discharged from the drainage tank through a cooling system to enhance the body's power in the ocean.
The primary weapon is the I-19 Plasma Energy Cannon, which fires shotbullets of charged ion particles that can penetrate the monster's heavy skin and directly injure its internal organs.
The spare weapon is a chain sword, which is usually curled and retracted, and when used, it will be spliced into a long sword, which can be called sharpened like clay and indestructible.
Anyway, as long as he has the protagonist's aura, he can do anything, and he doesn't need to care about his actual performance.
However, it is difficult to say whether the dangerous wanderers will be so lucky to continue to perform miracles this time.