Chapter 5: Cutting down trees

Panting and puffing, Nataya managed to make her way through two blocks again, pulling a crying Orlando out of the rubble and running into the gate guarded by the pair of Sentinel Towers.

With the hissing sound of the air pump, the thick gate of the research institute slowly closed, and Nataya realized that there was still a backup power supply in the research institute, but it was just too dim.

Opened two cans of meatloaf, she stuck a spoon in each can, and handed one to Orlando, "From today onwards, you can eat whatever I eat, and if you don't want to eat, you'll be hungry." Orlando's eyes flashed, he realized that he could not see his mother for the time being, and that his stomach was rumbling after not eating for more than twelve hours, and as soon as he grabbed the spoon, he scooped out the meat cake and fed it to his mouth.

"Very well, as long as you don't mess with me, I won't throw you to those monsters" Nataya breathed a sigh of relief as she picked up a can of her own food and walked around the institute with a spoon of meatcakes.

If it weren't for the institute sign, Nataya would have thought it was a grocery store. All kinds of power suits and power equipment were scattered on the table and corner, until they reached the end of the research institute, and Nataya was pleasantly surprised to find a place that she thought was the most useful----- the armory room of the defense force of the research institute.

Opening the door of the armory, Nataya saw a neatly stacked Sentinel Tower-specific bullet chain on the ground like a hill, and various other equipment were neatly marked around it, such as a large chest with a spider skull pattern, she opened the box and saw that there was an octaclaw robot the size of her body, and the robot was painted with a ground-burrowing symbol and explosive symbol. There was also a whole row of electromagnetic machine guns against the wall, that thing was terrible, Nataya saw a prisoner who was torn apart by a bullet from that thing, and the person who was hit had his upper body blown up. Behind the door of the armory, there are also four stacks of boxes marked by fireproofing, and the head of the ejector hanging from the box can tell that it is a flamethrower that can breathe a huge flame.

The discovery gave Nataya a strong sense of security, but within seconds, that feeling was replaced by a sense of loss. There are so many weapons here, if they can be used, it is enough to destroy which clumsy zombies outside a hundred times, and the problem in the problem is, let alone which weapons, even bullets, Nataya can't move...

It's like a man who has been thirsty in the desert for a few days and finally comes across a lake, only to find that the ice on the surface of the lake is several meters thick, and he can't even get a single shaved ice out of it.

Nataya sat on the ground in frustration, shoveled out a piece of meat from the canned meat cake, put it in her mouth, chewed hard, and kept flowing with various thoughts in her little head: "If the sentry tower outside is not repaired, it will be a dead end after being locked here for a long time, and now we must find a way to go to the airport, there must be a usable rescue pod, all the rescue pods are pre-stored with crankshaft engine lines with fixed routes, no matter where you can escape, as long as you can get out of this ghost place." ”

After eating the last spoonful of meatloaf, Nataya's gaze stopped behind the glass wall of the armory, where a row of blue-black power armor stood, reflecting the dim lights of the research institute.

That's right, why don't you use that, Nataya watches the workers unload in the orphanage every day, that is, the power armor used, those inferior civilian engineering armor definitely don't work here, it's enough to take out the bullet chain and change it to the sentry tower, and after wearing the power armor, these weapons can be used, and the chance of successfully arriving at the airport is greatly increased!!

The little girl happily shook off the empty cans, rushed to the row of power armor, and finally broke off the power armor cuirass standing on the far left, climbed up, and activated the armor.

The blue-black power armor lit up all over, the turbine propulsion equipment on the shoulders and back began to rotate out a bright blue light, and a euphemistic voice prompt appeared in Nataya's ears: "Energy access, fire control start, login scanning", and then, a blue light swept across Nataya's face, and it didn't take long for the blue light to sweep again, and then sweep again....

"Authorization failed, terminate activation" As the blue light disappeared, the entire power armor also dimmed again.

"No, it's not..." Nataya jumped off the first power armor and climbed up to the second... All the way to the last one in this row ... The results are not different, all of them are authorization failures, and none of them can be used.

"These stinky soldiers, if they don't wear their power armor to go out to fight, are they all fleeing for their lives!" Nataya, who has seen too many low-level human deeds in the mining area, immediately understood that the power armor here is not an inventory at all, but the standard equipment of those GIs, but these GIs should have run away as soon as the invasion began, because the infantry equipment of the entire research institute is there, and there is only one Vulture motorcycle left.

There was only one left, a power mech in the corner with a rainproof cloth left.

Nataya, who didn't hold any hope at all, still ripped off the rainproof cloth of this mecha, and as the rainproof cloth slid down, the golden light illuminated this corner of the wall.

"Beautiful" was the only thought in Nataya's mind at the time.

Unlike other power armors, this one is noticeably slimmer, and its entire body is pale gold, which looks dazzling in dim light. Nataya climbed into the breastplate, felt the start button, and pressed it hard. As the engine's self-check sound and starting light lit up one by one, a distinctly gentle electronic tone drifted into my mind.

"Muddy Waters Prototype, Registration Requested"

"Register" Nataya replied, and a blue light swept towards Nataya's face. "Pupil sampling completed, DNA sampling completed, registration completed, confirmation of login". The breastplate of the power armor was closed, and several brackets protruded from the inside of the limbs, which were placed on Nataya's hands and feet, keeping her position in the upper middle of the cuirass in the air, and then a small screen lit up inside the transparent layer of the first layer of the helmet.

"Welcome to the Muddy Waters Prototype" Nataya took a step forward with this electronic sound. It's good, it's no different from walking normally, it's just... This field of vision is a bit high. Nataya suddenly ran forward, a two-meter-tall robot quickly ran around the armory, jumped on the table, then jumped down, and rushed to the bullet chain, and when she was about to jump up again, her footsteps touched the top ammunition box, and the whole golden robot flipped in the air and fell to the ground.

"Okay, it still hurts when you fall" Nataya touched her neck with her hand, tears of pain were about to come out, and Orlando was standing in the doorway, looking at the golden armor that kept touching his neck with his hand.

The cuirass opened suddenly, and Nataya pointed to the sofa in the observation room next to her, and said to little Orlando, "You go there, or I'll throw you out to feed the bugs" Orlando hurriedly ran to the sofa with the canned meat cake that he hadn't finished eating, this fierce young lady could still drive such a big guy, little Orlando couldn't help but be more in awe of his sister, and after climbing onto the sofa, he looked at the young lady with huge armor motionlessly.

"It's no problem to move things, try using a gun, if you want to get on the spaceship alive, you must learn to use this" Nataya closed her cuirass and walked to the weapon rack of the electromagnetic gun.

The golden armor took up a weapon, and raised it with both hands. Nataya had seen this happen countless times, and the favorite thing for the boys in the orphanage was to take a stick to imitate an electromagnetic gun and make a biu biu biu sound with their mouths, but they were holding real guys today.

Feeling that she was aiming at the bucket in front of her, Nataya pulled the trigger for the first time in her life.

Nothing happened, and the bucket that was expected to be pierced or hit into the sky was still completely there. "Huh" Nataya kept pulling the trigger strangely, and the electromagnetic gun did not change except for the sound of "click". Nataya dropped this one, then picked up another one, and replaced it with another... Until all the guns were used all over again... She found another awkward spot---- none of the guns fired high-energy penetrating rounds.

"Is the system broken?" Nataya asked with a frown and nodded the self-test option. After a few seconds, the standard electronic federals replied "Everything is fine with the Muddy Waters prototype, the fire control system is fine, weapons are retrieval within 5 meters, electromagnetic weapons are normal, and the Spider Mine is normal". Nataya was even more strange and asked again, "Then why can't I use weapons?" "Standard Electronic Tone Reply" The Muddy Water Prototype is made of high-density golden ore crystals, which are different from ordinary mineral crystal armor, the energy density of golden ore crystals is too high, rejecting all energy weapons, and the affinity weapon types are spiritual weapons and non-energy weapons."

Nataya asked curiously, "Show spiritual weapons, non-energy weapons". Then the screen of the helmet shows two weapon icon groups, the spiritual weapon icon group has about 40 items, all items have no patterns on them, only a bright red question mark, and the other weapon icon group shows basically all kinds of strangely shaped swords, guns, swords, halberds.

"It turns out that you cut down trees" Nataya made the final conclusion about the power mech.