The exercise took place on the shooting range in Zion.

Zion's range certainly couldn't have been on the ground. Because the ground is already the territory of the Machine City.

Although in the absence of satellites, the mechanical city cannot monitor the entire earth, and there must be omissions on the ground that cannot be detected by the matrix, but such omissions, the people of Zion are not clear, and they are in the vigilance of frightened birds, so they naturally dare not build the shooting range on the ground.

So, at a depth of about twenty kilometers underground, on the shore of a wide underground sea, Zion set up a live-fire training ground here.

Walking into the brightly lit shooting range and seeing the slightly undulating underground sea in front of him, Yuan Hao's mood seemed to be much brighter all of a sudden.

The space here is very spacious. Overhead is a dome of at least two thousand meters. There are still rocks on it, and people have installed huge spotlights on it to illuminate the place. In front of me is the sea that cannot be seen at a glance, and the water does not know how deep it is, but since it is called the sea, it is definitely not a few meters of lake water that can be described.

"Here, we have given her the name Mai Hai, which means our sea.

The sea is 100 kilometers wide at its widest point and 6 kilometers at its narrowest point, with an average depth of about 300 meters...... It is quite a wide sea area.

Because there is such a large space, we have set up a shooting range here...... The space is empty enough to weaken the echoes generated during weapon experiments. This is good for data collection. ”

Commander Locke, who was standing beside Yuan Hao, briefed Yuan Hao about the situation at the shooting range:

"The range was natural, and we just set up the lights a little bit...... Nature is truly a miracle. Compared to this nature, we humans are indeed too weak. ”

"But the fact that we are able to stand here also shows how strong we are as human beings. As long as we work hard and give us time, we are able to adapt to a variety of environments. Whether it's the starry sky or the bottom of the sea, we will all be the rulers. Yuan Hao said leisurely.

Commander Locke, who looked cold and stiff with his lines, looked at him, listened to the words that came out of his mouth, felt the sincerity in his words, understood his identification with humanity, and immediately laughed: "Do you think we can win?"

"It's inevitable! I believe that!" Yuan Hao said categorically.

"Alright!" Locke's cold face smiled faintly. He was also a human supremacist himself, and Yuan Hao's words undoubtedly won his approval and resonated with him. However, he still knew clearly: "Machinery City is very strong!"

"So, we have to be stronger than them......" Yuan Hao said.

"But that takes time, and time ...... I can't tell when I'm going to run out. Maybe it's today, maybe it's tomorrow...... The Machine City is always pressing on us. Locke's voice was low.

"So we need exactly the power to threaten him. ”

Yuan Hao narrowed his eyes:

"It's like an old world nuclear weapon. Everyone says that nuclear weapons are the most inhumane, but it is undeniable that a large part of the reason why a world war did not break out when there were so many contradictions between many countries in the Old World was because of the balance of nuclear weapons.

Everyone knows how powerful the other party is, and they can't afford to provoke each other, so there is peace in the old world. But not now, we don't have a place where we can threaten Machine City......

So the mechanical city wants to kill us whenever they want, and they can kill us whenever they want, the only difference is that they can find us when they want! ”

"So what do you want to do?" Locke agreed with Yuan Hao's statement, but he didn't know what the power in Yuan Hao's mouth could threaten the Machine City.

"Nuclear bombs?" Locke remembered the mass killing weapon. Judging from the fact that Yuan Hao can give the body and engine equipped with a nuclear furnace, it should be very easy for him to build a nuclear bomb.

It's just that......

"If you use a nuclear bomb, the mechanical city can be destroyed, but the compatriots in the mechanical city are also ......" Locke was a little entangled.

Locke agrees with the idea that the battery exists as his own countryman.

Since it is recognized, it must be maintained, so he is not willing that Yuan Hao really comes up with such a big killing weapon. He struggled.

"Nuclear bombs, a strategic threat weapon, are only useful if they are placed on a launcher...... Besides, we're only using it to make a horrific peace with the Machine City. Nuclear bombs are just a last resort. Yuan Hao seemed to know what Locke was thinking, and said lightly at the moment.

Hearing Yuan Hao say this, Locke originally wanted to say that you don't want to play with nuclear bombs, but after thinking that Yuan Hao was not his subordinate at all, but was a guest of Zion, and people had the right to be independent, he could only sigh: "This matter has a lot to do with it, I hope you can think about it more! Nuclear bombs are really not a good thing." ”

"I will!" Yuan Hao smiled.

Their conversation is actually crooked. It's just that the two of them are hot, but they don't have any self-consciousness.

In the middle of the conversation, both sides had already moved their bodies to the shooting range.

Yuan Hao's side is naturally the original mass-produced Jim Guard, and Locke's side is only using mass-produced combat mechas.

As the master, Zion's combat mechs are the first to take the field. The mecha, which weighed more than five meters, stood in front of Jim, who was eighteen meters tall, looking thin and short.

The pilot who controlled the mecha gave Jim a serious look, and his eyes revealed longing and envy. Originally, he thought that his mecha was the best, but now with a heavy guy like Jim to compare, he realized that others were superior to him in all aspects.

"I heard...... We'll have this kind of mecha in the future?" he had heard of such rumors, and he believed them.

After Commander Locke asked him to come out and show the "power" of his mecha, he realized that what he really wanted to show was not the power of the mecha itself, but the technology of the mecha that he had already controlled.

"I've got to behave well. He narrowed his eyes slightly.

Finally got a notice that it was his turn to play. He took a step forward, controlling the mecha to step forward, step by step, and the earth roared. Zion's mech was developed from exoskeleton armor, and he didn't have a too complicated operating system.

The pilot only needs to wave his limbs as he normally would, and he can perform the corresponding movements, which is quite a fool's operation. Because of fools, the cost of learning mechs is low.

Of course, the low learning cost and such a simple body framework make it not so easy for pilots to really control it well - it is easy to learn and difficult to master, which is also the biggest problem of this body.

The pilots who can be sent out to practice are, of course, the best among the Zion pilots. He may not be the strongest, but he is definitely the most consistent.

The rudimentary body gave him very light control, and every movement was like a smooth flow.

Swiftly walked to the firing position, and the rudimentary mecha lifted two submachine gun-like weapons.

"50mm rapid-fire rifle...... The gun is 3 meters long, weighs 200 kg, fires 50mm standard and 50mm heavy rounds against lightly armoured and unarmoured targets, has a rate of fire of 100 rounds per minute, and is fed with 30 magazines. Yuan Hao calmly watched the movements of the mecha, and Commander Locke whispered on the side of the road.

While Locke is explaining, the mech fires.

The dull sound of "Tong Tong ......" sounded, and the dazzling tongue of fire spat out a distance of more than two meters, and a hot bullet rushed out of the chamber of the gun, and quickly found the target two kilometers away.

The rudimentary mechs did not have an optical imaging system specifically for "long-range" operations, and the shooting of targets mainly relied on the pilot's eyes. Although the target used to test the mech's firing accuracy was large enough, it was placed two kilometers away.

At this distance, such a large target also became small enough in the eyes of the pilot. If you want to hit it accurately, you have to have a pair of eyes like eagles.

In fact, many of Zion's pilots shoot with 50mm rapid-fire rifles, more often than not, considering the direction of probability - as long as the direction is correct and the approximate scale is reached, use more bullets.

50mm, which in the old world was exactly the specification for small-caliber guns. The 50mm caliber standard bullet is also a blasting bullet, which can rely on the fragmentation to attack a piece of the enemy. In a sense, this is a surface attack weapon, and the accuracy naturally allows for a certain margin of error.

Zion's pilot played very steadily, the mecha stopped firmly on the spot, the mechanical arm firmly held the machine gun, and the bullets were shot out in a row. The 50mm rapid-fire rifle has three gears: single shot, three-point fire, and continuous fire.

A single shot is only done by the master of the master, and the continuous shooting will only come to the most critical time unless it is a rookie, and the average veteran uses a three-point shot, relying on a series of short bursts to attack the target.

The pilot played well, and the target in front of him was soon engulfed in the roar of the explosion by the flames of the smoke and dust that were raised.

"With a 70 per cent shooting rate, that's a pretty good result. Locke listened to the report of the subordinates below, nodded with satisfaction, and whispered in front of Yuan Hao.

"It's really good, with such a humble mecha, you can get such results...... It's really hard to come by. Yuan Hao nodded in agreement, and his mouth was unceremoniously: "The pilot is very good, but the mecha is too bad." Overall combat efficiency is not good. If it is my Jim Guard, then the combat distance between the two sides is at least five kilometers, and the hit rate must be at least 90% when hitting fixed targets with point shooting. ”

"Really?" Commander Locke replied lightly, and said no more.

The drill continued, and after the rapid-fire rifle, the 7-barreled 20mm Vulcan cannon and the 100mm caliber rocket launcher were test-fired, and the pilot piloting the mecha completed the corresponding shooting items very smoothly. He played very steadily, and basically every target was destroyed in the first place, and only one or two missed points needed to be turned in the second round.

Although it was only a fixed target and a stationary shot, being able to use such a rudimentary mecha to achieve such an excellent effect was enough for Yuan Hao to admire.

"Not bad, not bad!" Yuan Hao applauded, he really admired the pilot of Zion.

At this point, the Zion mecha has shown their strength, and now it's Jim's turn on Yuan Hao's side.

"Huang Yun!" Yuan Hao shouted, "This MS will be handed over to you." He said to Huang Yun, the little girl standing in him.

"Huh, I ...... I won't!" Huang Yun, a sixteen-year-old girl, was stunned.

"What nonsense are you talking about?It's not like you haven't played MS's battle simulator, everything is according to the game. Yuan Hao said and directly pushed the little girl. I couldn't help but say that she was in charge of this drill.

"Hey...... This is to catch the ducks on the shelves. The little girl muttered as she walked towards the huge mecha that was eighteen meters high.

Jim, who is eighteen meters tall and weighs fifty tons, and a little more than one meter six in size form a stark contrast in the eyes of everyone.

"This ...... Can it be done?" Commander Locke looked at Yuan Hao in surprise: "I know you want to give me a little face, but in this case...... Obvious cheating! I don't want to, you're letting me ......," Commander Locke said, his voice cold.

"I'm not letting you. Don't underestimate her, she's actually very strong. Yuan Hao retorted with a smile.

"Really?" Commander Locke was visibly unconvinced.

"Nature is true. Yuan Hao nodded strongly, he didn't let Huang Yun come down.

The little girl went up and into Jim's torso. The cockpit was closed.

Moments before the cockpit door closed, people sneaked a glance inside, and found that there was an empty cabin inside, and there seemed to be nothing.

"What's going on? Cockpit like this...... How exactly do they control the mech?"

And when everyone was suspicious, Yuan Hao pressed his ear and used brain waves to contact Huang Yun, the little girl in Jim Guard, through a small contact device: "Don't panic, you just need to use the cockpit as a simulator for you to play." In fact, that simulator, like the cockpit, is used to train pilots. If you can operate the simulator, you will operate this ......."

"Whoa...... Is that so?" the little girl is also a wise person. After the initial panic had passed, she settled down, the familiar sensation recalled, and after a little movement of her hands and feet in place, she understood what the Jim Guard was supposed to do.

The little girl understood quickly, but the movements she made when she moved her hands and feet in place, the movements of clenching fists, swinging fists, and waving hands like real people were surprisingly flexible.

"That's ...... How can it do it? How can an eighteen-meter-tall guy be so flexible?" Locke's face was full of surprise.

"He's MS, and he was originally designed to be completely human-like. Yuan Hao smiled.

"Really, I'd like to see it!" Commander Locke was intrigued.

"It's up to you!" Yuan Hao smiled, while repeating the parameters of the Jim Guard: "RGM-78 Jim Guard, 18 meters high, weighing 50 tons, using new titanium alloy armor, generator output: 1250K...... THE MAXIMUM THRUST OF THE FULL-POSITION NOZZLE IS: 57480KG...... The acceleration is: 0.98G, the effective radius of the sensor detection is 6300, the time required for 180° posture change is 1.2 seconds, the fixed armament is, the head is 40mm Vulcan cannons, and the beam saber is a rated output of 0.38M!

"It's pretty good to listen to the data. But his actual ability ......" Locke smiled faintly: "I still have to see!"