After handing over the mercenaries to Todd for training, Shen Chao returned to the space station and made the final preparations before departure. While it will take some time for their mercenaries to be ready for the "development" mission he has arranged, that doesn't mean that his expedition will have to wait for them in the meantime.

Some of the planned early activities can already be underway, such as establishing a base in the world of I Am Legendary. This work does not require a large number of people, only a small number of people plus a group of drones and drones can be completed smoothly.

The purpose of establishing a base in the target world is also very simple, to establish a foothold for their expansion and development in this plane in the future stage. Expand outward with this as the center.

Such a site must have some infrastructure, because what they need is a military and political base camp located in this plane. Not only can they garrison a large number of troops, but they must also be able to serve as the center of their management of the plane for some time to come.

Therefore, such a site must meet the characteristics of a city whose infrastructure has not been severely damaged in previous disasters, so that they can quickly restore electricity and water supply.

Second, it had to be a big city that was famous before the disaster, which would be beneficial for their subsequent recruitment plans. Finally, there can't be too many mutants nearby. So that they can quickly occupy and clean up the mutants in the nearby area.

According to the results of the last scan, they have already selected a location that meets these criteria. It's also done with the positioning before the crossing, so you can rush over it immediately, and then spend a few days occupying that area and cleaning up the mutants in the entire area. And that's exactly what they're going to do.

A day later, in the center of the main docking area of the space station zero, Shen Chao, wearing his new armor, led the team to conduct a final inspection before the crossing.

At this time, the armor on his body looked very different from the previous one. Not only has the livery changed, it has become a new kind of urban camouflage. And the lines of the entire armor look more concise.

In addition to this, there are obviously some small items on the armor. At first glance, it looks like a lot of new functional components have been added.

This is not an illusion, due to the fact that I have been in the Mass Effect world for a long time, and I have the support of an extremely powerful intelligence network. So their team has a lot of important technical support.

Using these technical data and new equipment, Hargrave was able to recreate their armored version of the nanosuit during their other operations, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the core personnel wearing the nanosuit.

Today, Shen Chao is a senior member of his expedition. Even the soldiers were wearing this new, almost indestructible armor. Not only is it unique in the world of Mass Effect, but it is extremely advanced in most sci-fi worlds.

The first thing to get an upgrade is armor. Their nanosuits were replaced with more advanced armor, replacing the vehicle-level armor version used in the previous emergency, and replacing it with a new and downsized warship armor developed by the Touareg military.

When Shen Chao and the others left, the production process of this battleship armor was still the top-secret information of the Touareg military, and they only knew that this armor technology was restored from the overlord.

The inside of the armor is made up of millions of layers, and the main material is layers of elemental graphene, and between these millions of layers of graphene are the same number of microscopic circuits and tiny zero-element links.

The serial manufacture of such armor is extremely difficult. The price is even more expensive. Only an organization like Shen Chao's expedition team, which is not short of money, would think of installing it on the armor.

Hargrave had explained to them the underlying workings of this armor when he had completed the upgrade before, but Shen Chao didn't fully understand it at the time, only one thing was clear, such an outer armor needed uninterrupted power supply to work properly.

Once the power supply to the microscopic zero-element link inside is stopped, this ultra-high-defense armor immediately becomes waste. It's not as good as normal armor.

OK. The amount of power needed to maintain the armor protection is not large, and their nanosuits absorb environmental energy faster than this armor when on Earth. I can achieve an in-out balance.

And when this normal power is on, all the molecules on the whole piece of armor will be tightly packed together, making the surface strength of the armored version comparable to the surface of a neutron star! Nearly indestructible.

This strength is far more powerful than any known armor nearly a hundred times. The strength of other types of polymer materials is as great as the difference between the strength of solids and liquids.

This type of armor has also appeared in other works of art in the science fiction genre, and because its underlying principles include the use of strong interaction forces, one of the four fundamental forces, this type of armor is collectively referred to as strong interaction armor.

Switching to strong interaction armor greatly increases their armor defense, and even a super penetrating individual weapon like the M98 Widow cannot penetrate their thick frontal strong interaction cuirass or helmet in a single shot.

But that's only part of the armor protection upgrade. The shields on their armor have also been greatly upgraded, and a few days ago, Shen Chao took the time to go to a peaceful high-tech plane and got a batch of quantum entanglement batteries that Hargrave mentioned earlier.

With this new battery, Hargrave has succeeded in raising the protection of all of their kinetic energy barriers by 2 notches, and has installed transparent deflection shields on all key parts of the armor. Includes a visor on the helmet.

Unlike kinetic weapons, which protect the kinetic energy of the kinetic barrier in all directions, the deflection shield has extremely low protection against physical ammunition, almost as useless as the kinetic barrier against laser weapons.

Moreover, the deflection shield can only cover the non-jointed parts of the body, because once it is formed, it cannot change the structure of the protective part when it is opened.

So if there really is such a superb silly fork that creates a deflection shield that can cover the whole body, then its only consequence is to make the person inside the shield completely immobilized, and become the saddest living target on the battlefield.

However, these disadvantages of the deflection shield correspond to many advantages, the first of which is its extremely high defense against energy weapons.

Plasma weapons, laser weapons, and particle beam weapons are difficult to break through its defenses. Far better than the defense of the kinetic energy barrier.

In other words, isn't the kinetic energy barrier also capable of defending against plasma weapons? One might ask that, yes, the improved kinetic barrier is indeed effective against direct damage from plasma weapons.

But that's because plasma is also matter and mass, and a kinetic barrier can keep the hot plasma out of the protective range, allowing it to release its energy from a "safe" distance.

However, this safety distance is usually only half a meter or even closer, and the high temperature and optical radiation released by the plasma will still have an unaffected impact on the target, causing a certain amount of damage.

If you don't wear armor that is thick enough, you may get burned. Even more unlucky, if you're not wearing a helmet when the Kinetic Barrier is hit by a plasma weapon, you may be disfigured by the plasma exploding at close range!

In the future, they will inevitably go to the world of high-energy laser weapons like the Wandering Earth, which shows the necessity of such a protection upgrade.

Of course, their new armor is not only an upgrade of their protective abilities, but also the restriction on the increase in the strength of the nanosuit, which was not fully unlocked due to the soldiers just starting out, has also been lifted.

Now, soldiers in nanosuits can run as fast as a high-speed sports car, leap up to 20 meters in a single jump, or punch through the side armor of a tank. Truly became a "super" warrior.

In addition to the above upgrades, they also have two small plasma thrusters installed on the back of their armor, and the operating system has also been upgraded, which makes them have a certain ability to fly in the air without the help of vehicles.

Of course, such a trick can only be played in the low-tech world, and in the mass effect world where the level of air defense technology breaks through the sky, the flying infantry on the battlefield is equivalent to stupid×ity and masochism.

Back at the zero space station, Shen Chao first asked everyone to check the weapons and equipment before setting off as usual, and he also confirmed that the equipment on his body was working normally.

However, the weapons and equipment they inspected this time were not as simple as one or two small arms. And the people involved are not one or two squads.

At this time, 40 hammerhead chariots and several phalanxes of 2,000 heavily armed security planes were parked in their docking area. And that's not counting the hundreds of drones of a dozen brigades in mid-air.

After hearing his order, the personnel all checked in their respective vehicles, and the personnel also completed a set of weapon inspection actions neatly.

This time, there were a large number of heavy weapons that crossed them, so the personnel involved in the operation were basically in vehicles, and all the tasks of foot land combat were handed over to the security planes.

: "1 group is ready, 2 groups are ready......" After the inspection, the sound of the preparation is heard one after another. The four machine qì people also sent electronic reports reporting their detailed status.

"Good, we can go. ”

Seeing that everyone was ready, Shen Chao opened a space-time door leading to the destination and worked hard to hold it up to a diameter of 15 meters. Then use the 2.0 version of the space-time gate with a height of 20 meters to stabilize the dìng.

This new version of the space-time gate stabilizer was also developed in the first few months, and not only is the diameter of the device 5 times larger than the previous version of the first version, but the output power of the laser is also nearly 7 times larger.

The overall structure of the space-time gate stabilized dìng device is stable, and the modular design and manufacture are adopted. As a result, the new version of the space-time gate stabilizer can replace some of the key components, even in operation.

In this way, this new space-time gate stabilizer will keep the space-time gate open, even during maintenance. You don't have to close it like you did in the first version. (To be continued.) )