391 Naming
'He ......'
'Why is he here?!' β
The silent figure was the one that Helen remembered the most when she came to the barracks, as a newborn android who had just been born in the training barn, this recruit named Bai E had accomplished feats in a short period of time that no other soldier could achieve in a lifetime.
It was precisely because of his outstanding performance that he was attracted by his resume and devoted himself to observing him for a long time when he came to the barracks, and even had the idea of taking him as his most important test subject, but in the end he gave up this plan because of his poor talent in close combat.
After going back, she was glad that she didn't choose a "defective product" on the spur of the moment, let alone choose the warrior called "Rose" to act as a "substitute" for a lower level, this plan requires a lot of resources, and the Senate is definitely not a place willing to gamble on meager probabilities.
This plan can be delayed, but it must not fail!
So...... Why is he sitting here at this time of day?
At such a time, the people who appeared on such an occasion must be high-ranking officers in the barracks, or important front-line officers who participated in this battle, how could he, an ordinary soldier, sit in this position?
Although she didn't have much to do with the military, Helen also knew about the system of promotion in the armyβunless she had a city lord father, it would be difficult for a normal natural person to be promoted from a grassroots soldier to an important officer rank in just a few months.
Still is...... Is this warrior's performance really terrifying enough to break the conventional system? Let the stereotypical place of the barracks have to admit his merits?
Could it be that you still looked away at the beginning?
This fleeting speculation was accompanied by a slight remorse rising in her heart, and Helen froze in place, countless thoughts flashing through her heart.
"Academician Helen? Academician Helen? The call that sounded in her ears seemed to sound from far away brought Helen back to her senses suddenly.
With a slight blink of her eyes, Helen's consciousness instantly turned, and she turned her head to look in the direction that called for her as if nothing had happened.
Vesling was looking at him with a flattering smile.
"Academician Helen, I'm sorry for you again. These are two brand new Zerg Behemoths that our military encountered in a battle that just took place, and the sample organization of one of the Behemoths has been properly preserved and is waiting for you to receive it. β
Helen collected her mind and allowed herself to focus on the more urgent and important things in front of her, "What about the battlefield video?" β
"Here."
With Vesling's gesture, a picture of the giant beast captured by a battlefield drone suddenly appeared on the white curtain behind it.
The first shot was undoubtedly shocking, as the last core combat force of the military, the Titan-level armed mecha was instantly bombarded by a single shot, and even the firepower of the explosion was enough to cover a huge area.
According to the subsequent summary of the explosion area, the casualty rate of both mechanical and human beings in the shelling range was as high as 95%.
If the instrument is hit in a less important part, it can still be rescued, and the human body is shattered if it collapses, and the power is no worse than being hit on the body by an anti-equipment sniper rifle.
What's more critical is that even if the spread is extremely wide, the range of the behemoth's artillery strike is still dense.
This level of destructive power is far more exaggerated than the previous performance of "Juggernaut".
The dominance is fierce, and it is just a control of others and self-control.
And if there are a few more of these new giant beasts, and a few rounds of bombardment before the war, how can the human side have any chance of winning?
Even the Titan-class armed mechs they were proud of were like papier-mΓ’chΓ© in front of them, and the larger the battlefield, the greater the threat of this behemoth.
Small-scale battlefields can also rely on the mecha's toughness to rush in the face, and large-scale battles are blocked by endless insect seas, and it is difficult for mechas to cross the insect nest to perform decapitation.
Humanity can only rejoice that the bugs have once again irrationally exposed their most powerful hole cards to the battlefield where they should not be.
If they were humans, they would never reveal their absolute hole cards so easily.
But no matter what, as soon as the new giant beast was reported, it was instantly assessed by the military department as the most tricky strategic unit of the Zerg at present.
"We'll name it Thunderbeast ......"
The video played slowly, and Helen couldn't take her eyes off it, while Vesling whispered it beside her.
The progress came to the decapitation tactic of the mecha's forced advance, and Helen had no time to care about the front and back tears in the mecha team's performance, but was engrossed in the "thunder beast" every move when facing the mecha rush.
The video finally came to an end with the final single cut of a blue-and-white mecha and the detonation of a bomb in its body.
Vesling synthesized the information summarized by the analysis department in the short period of time from returning to the camp to the present to Academician Helen in front of him, "After our preliminary analysis, the main weapons of the Thunder Beast are two types: one is an artillery attack form composed of two projectiles, and the other is an attack form in which the symbiotic gun of the forelimbs spits out a large amount of acid stored in the glands in the body. One is used to bomb distant battlefields on a large scale, and the other is used to protect oneself when the enemy is approaching. Other than that, the Thunderbeast didn't have too many other symbiotic weapons or organs.
And judging from the signs and posture of the thunderbeast we observed, it didn't look ...... It's also not suitable for loading more other types of symbiotic weapons, and it shouldn't have too many variant features. At the moment, we feel that the best tactic to deal with Thunderbeast is to have our armed mechs sprint to fight close to the face, and Thunderbeast lacks the means to deal with high armor units. β
"But can each of your mechs have the melee prowess of this mech?"
Helen pointed to the final stop on the screen, the mecha holding a single knife turned its back to the thunder beast, and the huge Zerg corpse slowly collapsed.
Although the video is short, the performance of several other mecha on the screen is very different from the performance of this mecha that killed the thunder beast, saying that it is a teaching battle between the instructor and the students, and Helen also believes it.
"This ......"
Vesling didn't have the mind or time to pay attention to this aspect, he was a marshal who led the overall situation, and he didn't need to worry about the personal combat power of each of his subordinates.
Not capable? Then practice!
There are tens of thousands of people in the barracks, millions of people in the entire city, and if there are not enough in the camp, they will be conscripted, and if they are not enough, they will be forced to make people produce violent soldiers, and they can pick out the talents they need one by one.
It is not necessary to have a unique existence like the "Imperial God of War", ordinary geniuses are just a matter of probability.
β¦β¦ So at this moment, he was speechless about Helen's question.
But Helen is also not very concerned about this difference in personal strength, she just needs more relevant information.
"What about another giant beast?"
"Here."
The screen flashed, and the screen flashed again.
The crimson behemoth is displayed from the time it runs, to the time when it is briefly dragged by the machine battle team, and the retreat after the death of the thunder beast, the time is short, and the content that can be observed is even rarer.
"This behemoth is tentatively named the Ripper, and its pair of usually hidden claws can easily tear through the strongest defenses of our armed mechs. And the scale is ......"
I'm afraid it's not small.
If the Thunderbeast is the absolute weapon of long-range bombardment, the Ripper is the invincible king of hand-to-hand combat.
A pair of claws can easily tear apart the armament of the armed mecha, and in just a few tens of seconds of delay, the three rippers directly tore apart one and a half, and if it weren't for the timely help of the mecha team leader after solving the thunder beast, the fate of destruction could not be avoided.
Although it doesn't seem to be as terrifying as the "Juggernaut", it is also one of the best Zerg symbiotic weapons in human knowledge.
Coupled with the terrifying power that can overwhelm the mecha in a head-on confrontation, and the full-body bone armor that all the armed weapons of the mecha can hardly damage it, the threat level of the Ripper is not much lower than that of the Thunder Beast.
Not to mention that there were three of them as soon as the Ripper appeared, and it didn't look like a cherished class at all.
If you see a large swarm of these insects rushing towards you on the future Zerg battlefield......
The thought of it makes every officer shudder.
In front of the people of their scientific research department, it is to be expected that the summary of the military department will not dare to be radical.
Helen never expected to rely on them to characterize the new Zerg species, but only pointed to the final scene on the screen.
The blue-and-white captain was looking in the direction of the three crimson beasts in the distance, like an absolute god of war who had protected the entire army.
"Who is operating this mech?"
The thunderbeast has not been on the field for a long time, and there are not many opportunities to show it.
Even if the battlefield drone follows the whole process, many details cannot be seen clearly due to distance and pixel problems.
Not to mention the Ripper, the whole process of the battle did not take more than a minute, except for the captain and his final brief entanglement, the battle against the other mechs was almost one-sided.
Perhaps only the pilot who operated the captain's plane would be able to tell more details that no one else could reach.
Helen doesn't care about the difference in power between individual fighters, but she understands warriors - every warrior needs to know their opponents first if they want to defeat their opponents.
Mech pilots who directly fight and slash the Thunderbeasts, and are even able to entangle and equal the Ripper, have the most say at this moment.
"Captain Bai, it's up to you to answer Academician Helen's question next." With a smile on his face, Vesling shifted his attention to Bai E.
The warrior who was single-handedly raised by himself once again made a big splash in this battle, and he also put gold on his face.
"Yes! Marshal! Bai Eban got up, turned his head to look at Helen with a serious face and nodded, "Academician Helen, you say." β
ββ¦β¦β
'It's him!' β
The focus returned to the warrior in the corner, and the thought that had just been forcibly suppressed couldn't help but jump into his heart again.
Helen's heart was shocked, but her face was only squinting, "You became a pilot?" When was this? β
"Five days ago." It was the time to take the assessment to become a full-time pilot, and Bai Er will not forget it.
Helen tilted her head slightly, "Marshal Vesling, if I'm not mistaken, the standard for your pilots is to require at least 14 points of physical fitness, reflexes, and 13 points of insight, right?" β
The pilot's driver is not a bunch of meat sprouts, and in order to ensure that the strongest human armament can play an adequate role, the pilot must also have a strong physique and sufficient observation and reaction ability.
Even if the pilots of the mecha company are only candidates, they are also first-class elites in other formations, and they have only come to this point through layers of selection and a certain amount of artificial assistance and reinforcement.
This is also an important reason why they are extremely repulsive to the airborne androids becoming team members.
Hearing Helen's question, Vesling was slightly stunned, squinted at the careful nod of the adjutant on standby, and replied firmly: "Yes! β
Helen murmured softly, "This attribute requires ......"
It's much more outrageous than when I first met him.
At first, it could be said that it was because the potential of its xenogene awakening was not fully released, which led to an explosion of development when its attributes were low, but now all attributes have increased rapidly......
Not to mention, he also broke the routine and became the only existence to join the team of regular pilots as an android, and at the same time, even in this extremely short training time, he became the captain of the mecha combat team that surpassed all the pilots in the mecha company.
What exactly did he do during this time?
The mind that had been extinguished was ready to move again.
It's just related to her own private plan, Helen knows the severity, and after a simple inquiry, she goes straight to the topic at hand, "Did you kill the thunder beast with your own hands?" β
"Yes."
"Aside from what Marshal Vesling said just now, is there anything else you'd like to add to the Thunder Beast?"
"Back to the academician, there is nothing wrong with what the marshal said. As far as I've observed, the Thunderbeast's attack methods are limited to these two forms, and its structure limits its ability to perform other forms of warfare. It is worth noting that there is a small group of workers and bees that will always follow the Thunderbeast, and if it weren't for the first round of missile bombardment on the Thunderbeast, our decapitation operation might have to face more resistance. And from what I've observed, it seems that the thunderbeast absorbs the biomass of the small bug guards around it and uses it to heal the injuries it has received. This is a weapon of war that can only follow the battle array to carry out strategic strikes, and if it appears in formation, we will absolutely not be able to deal with it now, and it should not appear on a battlefield at this level. β
There is information about thunder beasts, and the Behemoth Illustrated Book makes it quite clear, this is not a rare thing!
As long as you are willing to pay biomass, this kind of bug can be manufactured in large quantities by the Zerg.
Once it appears in groups, it is an existence that the human beings who know it now will definitely not be able to deal with!
Why would the Zerg with wisdom easily expose this hole card?
Since the last time he first set foot on the Zerg battlefield, Bai E has always had doubts about the true goal of the Zerg, and can only take advantage of this time to mix in a little private goods to see if he can order a little high-level that can be talked about in the city now.
ββ¦β¦ Will it absorb the biomass of other bugs to repair itself? Helen muttered softly, this was information that did not appear in the video or in Vesling's summary.
Nodding, Helen signaled that she knew, and asked, "So...... What about the Ripper? β
"I guess that's probably the wrong name." Bai E looked calmly at Helen.
Naming can create a preconceived impression of people's latent consciousness, and a proper name is also quite important.
"In my opinion, the duty of this crimson beast is more to protect ...... We should call it more - guards. β
(End of chapter)