171. Research investment

There is no doubt that the Motorcycle Steel Companion transforms into a power mech, and it is a very powerful ability to combine with the rider.

It has the advantages of both power mechs and steel companions, ensuring flexibility and wide regional practicality, as well as powerful power output, long endurance, efficient battlefield recovery and resupply capabilities.

The combination of these characteristics makes Orange Soda one of the few powerful steel partners at the crossroads.

The reason why Caterina is feared by many people at the crossroads is of course due to her personality and strength, but at the same time, it is inseparable from the fact that Orange Soda is a companion.

The strength of this ability can be seen, and at the same time, it is very, very rare.

It can even be said that in the entire crossroads, and even in all the intelligence channels that Rowling has access to, there is only one case of orange soda.

And the success was quite accidental.

“…… According to my father, my uncle had discovered Orange Soda in an abandoned underground research institute — she was already a steel beast and had awakened to herself — along with some research materials left behind by that institute. Most of them have been damaged and cannot be read or restored, but a few are still usable, and the most interesting one related to the transformation ability is stored in a single weapon tactical tool......"

Rowling said, gesturing at Caterina again, "That's the one my sister is wearing right now." When the institute was still in operation, this tactical device was a very advanced model, which could completely replace personal terminals for some data analysis and storage. Nowadays, it is even more rare. So far, I have not heard of any manufacturing machine that can perfectly replicate production, and a few of them are in the market, and they are all waste pickers who have found products from a long time ago. ”

"Not to mention that this tactical device has undergone some personal modifications or customizations, anyway, Dad has gotten two of the same model through some channels, and wants to develop the transformation ability, but there is no progress at all......

"Of course, that's a big deal. Let's go back to the transformation ability. In the tactical weapon that my sister wore, there was a piece of information about the 'Variable Power Mecha', which was used to add some deformation capabilities to the Power Mecha, so as to strengthen the energy throttling and applicability. Judging from the data, it has been very perfect, and even began to carry out actual machine tests. Unfortunately, however, the research was abandoned before it could be completely successful. And even more unfortunate...... Those experimental mecha left in the research institute have been absorbed and digested by the orange soda wandering alone in the research institute for a long time......"

"This result was very disappointing for my father...... Then he slowly shifted his attention to the orange soda. ”

"At first, I thought that since the orange soda said that those mecha were absorbed, then maybe it could restore the drawings or the mech. It's a pity that Orange Soda was not fully developed at that time, and it was missing in many aspects......"

"Later, I had the idea of replacing the orange soda itself, and at first the progress was not very smooth, and I failed many times, and it was only then that I got some results little by little......

Rowling recounted the cause and effect of Orange Soda's ability to shapeshift, and took time to look at Caterina halfway through.

Caterina nodded knowingly, "Wende is our own person, we can trust him completely." Saying this, Winder was a little happy: yesterday's efforts were not in vain, and he had indeed taken a big step forward in his sense of identity.

So Rowling operated her terminal and played some of the data.

It is all information related to the transformation of orange soda, which can be said to be the biggest secret that Rowling and even Caterina have in their possession.

Through the viewing of those materials, Wende can very intuitively see all the efforts and processes of Orange Soda in the ability to transform.

From the initial local deformation to the initial prototype of the mecha, the process is much more difficult than imagined, and the internal structure of the orange soda and the layout of the external weapons in the changes must be taken into account bit by bit, and the drawings of Rowling's father alone have changed more than 100 sheets!

And even if it's all perfect.

Ultimately, there are two issues with the ability to shapeshift:

First, the process of deformation requires a lot of element zero to finally solve the problem of the difference in size and structure of orange soda from motorcycle form to mecha form.

The second is the cognitive problem of orange soda, from motorcycle to mecha form, in a way, it can be said to break through the chassis type restrictions of steel partners!

None of this can be solved overnight.

So in the end, it took Rowling's father nearly ten years, a lot of resources and energy, and Orange Soda also went through dozens or hundreds of failures to have the ability it has today.

Rowling would explain this in such detail, mainly because she had praised Haikou before, but Winder's request made her feel very embarrassed.

Because letting the sand falcon also have the ability to shapeshift, it can be said that it is beyond the requirements of her ability.

Resources are secondary, and energy doesn't matter - after all, she can benefit from studying these on her own, but Orange Soda's unique own experience and the inability of Katerina's individual tactics to replicate are the difficult difficulties to overcome.

If it weren't for the fact that Orange Soda had absorbed a large number of mutable mecha prototypes, it would have been difficult for her to understand the principle of mecha mutability and identify with it. But even if these are all solved, without my sister's tactics, it will be difficult to transform on my own, let alone fight, with orange soda alone. Because there are some unique programs in the tactical tool, which are very helpful in the transformation process. The whole transformation process should be said to be completed by the cooperation of the orange soda and the tactical device. ”

Rowling waved her hand and said, "Sister's tactic is very important to her, and Dad has not made any progress in studying it before. There's no way to solve this, so there's really no way to do it......"

Rowling said what made her feel embarrassed, and there was a subtlety that none of them were a problem for Winder.

His ability to duplicate items is now available in the database!

But before he officially took it out, Wender looked at Caterina first, "You don't care about such an important thing at all?" ”

Caterina was a little helpless, "I didn't know you could do that kind of thing!" ”

Winder smiled and asked Caterina again, "This one has a close relationship with you, do you mind if I use it?" "Since the tactics are closely related to Caterina's confidential management, Winder is not very willing to fight with Yi's developing alliance because of an uncertain transformation ability.

Caterina thought about it seriously and shook her head, "This thing is actually the success of my uncle and father, they put a lot of energy into it, and they should be happier if they can make more progress." But he agreed to Winder's request.

At the same time, she reminded: "Even if you can do something like that, this is not something that can be done overnight, although Rowling's skills are good, but she may not be able to gain something." ”

"I know that very well." Winder touched his chin and said with a smile: "But such an interesting thing, wouldn't it be a pity to give up like this?" ”

“…… What's so interesting about this......" Katarina, who lives in the wasteland, still can't understand Winder's thoughts.

"It's cool just to be transformed, okay! And even if we don't mention that, we can make a lot of interesting developments. ”

"For example?"

"Abandon the idea of the cross-transformation of the motorcycle to the mecha. Wouldn't it be fun to do it directly to the mecha so that it has a certain ability to transform and expand? Windebi gestured: "For example, it was originally an ordinary mecha, or even something thinner, and then when it was necessary - Kura, a large number of weapons were deployed from behind and on both sides to saturate the strike!" Isn't it amazing?! ”

"Really?" Caterina gave Winder a suspicious look, "How does it sound like you've seen it?" ”

"Ah, we generally call this kind of thing 'ship equipment.'" Winder smiled toothlessly, "It's also one of my dreams." ”

Before Caterina could answer, Rowling couldn't help herself, "Hey, what kind of dumb riddle are you two playing there?" ”

"Don't worry." Winder soothed her with a smile, and then used it to create individual tactics, first one, then two, three, "With them, you should be able to do some research, right?" ”