Traveler of the River of Time and Space

Chapter 646 16: Lightweight Modular Production Line

On the battlefield.

With the death of the Son of the Black Goat, which was parasitized by the Esoteric Cultist Leader, the subsequent battles became much easier.

Beidou, in the process of reclaiming lost land, had cleared super mutants and super mutants many times. Especially in those cities with populations of tens of millions, the number of super mutants and super mutants was much higher than in the American region.

However, there was a difference between the super-mutated creatures in the East and those in America: many of the super-mutated creatures in America were initially artificially created, and super mutants were cultivated combat weapons. But in the East, they were all wild; wild super mutations were random, uncontrollable, completely influenced by the natural environment and radiation intensity, thus the super mutants in the East were more enormous in size, with some super mutants reaching over fifteen meters in height, about the height of a three-story building.

The price of chaotic mutation was greater power, stronger regeneration, and damage to intelligence, so Beidou was equipped with heavy firepower to deal with them.

"If we had such armor back then, we wouldn't have had to pay such a high price while clearing out the 'Fungal Nests'..." Chen Long looked at Su Ying from a distance, his eyes complex, and his gaze lingered on her crimson armor for a long time before looking away.

The Fungal Nest was a special fungal parasitic collective; in the entire American continent, only New York had one, but there were five in the East.

Beidou paid a huge toll of casualties and sacrifices to clear out the Fungal Nests back then.

This young girl hadn't even unleashed the true performance of this armor. As a powerful Spiritualist, he could sense the formidable potential within that armor.

In fact, what Su Ziyu air-dropped was Empress Isabella's spare Queen Level Interstellar Armor.

Its real power could assist a Spiritualist above level nine to directly conquer a level two planetary civilization with interstellar navigation capabilities in the interstellar era. Of course, the prerequisite for all this was possessing a special ability to dominate the mind.

The young girl had only developed its most basic abilities for now, not even capable of psychic folding temporarily.

During the process of reclaiming lost ground, Beidou's warriors accumulated valuable experience in dealing with super mutants. Their small electromagnetic cannons could inflict penetrating damage to super mutants; one shot to the head would be fatal, and hitting the limbs would incapacitate them. If not for the electromagnetic cannon's tendency to overload, continuous firing could drown super mutants in firepower. However, these electromagnetic cannons could currently only be mounted on nuclear-powered tanks and ships; without Suville's nuclear fusion battery technology, miniaturized applications of electromagnetic cannons could not be achieved.

"Sealed container!"

"Quick, get a container over here!" A blonde woman quickly approached the body of the Son of the Black Goat, looking at the still-twitching headless corpse, then shouted, "We must take its head back."

As the head was severed by Su Ying, what flowed from the Son of the Black Goat was not blood, but initially some wriggling tiny tendrils, which then slowly dissolved, eventually turning into a pool of turbid, dark greenish-black, tar-like viscous liquid.

At this moment, the blonde woman was carefully collecting the liquid, then placed the massive head inside a sealed container.

Throughout the process, she appeared extremely tense, as if fearing the head might suddenly open its eyes and take a bite.

"Is it really dead?" The commander of Beidou came over, frowned at the twitching massive corpse, and fired a series of bullets, which penetrated the body of the Son of the Black Goat but were soon expelled by the writhing muscles, with the wounds rapidly healing.

"The consciousness is dead," the blonde woman said nervously as she sealed the container, "but the vitality of that corpse has not perished."

"This phenomenon is called Death Retrospect."

"It is the authority of Old God creations."

The Academy was not entirely ignorant of the existence of the Old Gods, as during the Mysterious Island incident, Su Ziyu had once collaborated with the Academy forces to use nuclear bombs to destroy an offspring of the Old Gods. Those massive super octopuses, with astonishing regenerative abilities, could also corrode the spirit, and the Academy had retrieved the corpses of those monsters at that time. However, due to certain issues, they directly angered the leading figure of the Academy Mechanical Faction, Dr. A, who furiously declared how could insects like you save the world, and thus initiated a civil war within the Academy, purging the Academy's old forces.

Nevertheless, in the Academy's understanding, the Old Gods were defined as ancient evolved species with some supernatural mind abilities.

They knew a considerable amount about the Old Gods; Dr. A even knew that beneath a certain sea area lay a sealed Old God, though no one had been able to enter that area to this day.

After a brief clean-up of the battlefield.

The group departed again towards the location of the LN ship, but this time their escort lineup was much stronger, and Beidou's heavy armored forces were even equipped with signal jamming devices.

After the battle ended, Su Ying fell into silence.

She ignored the repeated glances at her crimson armor, just embracing the Gospel Book in her hands, organizing some newly acquired knowledge in her brain. The knowledge from the Nanometer Learning Device isn't fully mastered upon injection; only part of it can be digested, and the rest needs to be reorganized by oneself, with corresponding training based on specific physical conditions.

Moreover, in the personal auxiliary terminal of the Interstellar Armor, there were tasks entrusted to her by Su Ziyu.

That was technology from another world.

The technological level mastered by the Ancient Lost Empire was far superior to that of the Wasteland Plane, especially their modular production sequences, which could even directly refine materials to print everything they needed.

Of course.

Currently, this technology could not be directly shared by Su Ziyu. It's not that he was reluctant, but he feared accidentally destroying the Wasteland Plane. Some technology could be given to the civilization of the Wasteland Plane, but without the corresponding preliminary technologies, and since the Wasteland Plane was in a special state of Mechanical Ascension, Su Ziyu was quite afraid that a technological gap would lead to an uncontrolled Mechanical Ascension of the Wasteland Plane.

The Wasteland Plane already had a technological gap, and sudden access to overly advanced technology could likely trigger some unforeseen incidents.

Another reason is that the Ancient Lost Empire is a civilization where technology and Spiritual Energy coexisted, with some of their cutting-edge technologies using Spiritual Energy as support. Directly bringing these technologies into the wasteland might lead to widespread Mind pollution.

Su Ying was currently reviewing the data stored in the Interstellar Armor.

The technology inside was mainly of two categories: one was a lightweight modular production workshop, primarily used to supply light industrial materials, which also included some advanced soilless cultivation techniques. By just constructing a super farm as tall as a thirty-story building, it could provide food needed for hundreds of thousands of people. The other category was weaponry, primarily based on the equipment of the Lost Empire City Defense Army, not equipped with Spiritual Amplifiers. The firearms were mainly electromagnetic rifles, with ammunition being special alloy steel needles, significantly more powerful than the weapons of the wasteland, each magazine capable of firing over two hundred rounds.

Originally, there were electromagnetic rifles in the wasteland, but the technology was not mature.

The materials provided by Su Ziyu were quite comprehensive, enough to be used as standard infantry weapons up to the interstellar era.

In terms of armor, the Guard Army series exoskeleton was the main focus, with lightweight exoskeletons providing Power Armor level protection. Some high-tier Power Armor could even be utilized in the interstellar era. However, one thing couldn't be replicated: the Spiritual Shield Field, and the corresponding Spiritual Energy combat system. The Ancient Lost Empire achieved High Tier Spiritual Awakening, and all medium to high-end Power Armor was consistently equipped with Spiritual configurations.

So, some technologies had to be carefully considered by Su Ziyu before they could be disclosed.

Su Ziyu wanted Su Ying to copy these technical documents into three parts and simultaneously hand them over to Beidou, the Brotherhood, and the Academy Mechanical Faction.

The Wasteland Plane has its own path of Civilization Advancement, having already mastered controllable nuclear fusion technology, which means they currently possess virtually endless energy. Rather than acquiring more advanced technology, the most important task for the Wasteland Plane is to complete its own technology tree, to avoid obvious technological gaps, as this would affect their ultimate route of Mechanical Ascension.

The truly top-notch technology of the Ancient Lost Empire would be considered for release only after Su Ziyu's Incarnation Descent.

Because he absolutely did not wish to face another 'uncontrolled Mechanical Ascension'.

If not for the great catastrophe, according to the normal level of technological development, the Wasteland Plane should have already entered the era of interstellar exploration. Having mastered controllable nuclear fusion, they would have long ago pushed this planet to the limits of a planetary civilization.

These technologies were all carefully selected by Su Ziyu. The modular recycling system can quickly collect materials from the old era in the Wasteland Plane, converting them into usable resources. The soilless cultivation super farm can solve the supply issues of the wasteland by guaranteeing a clean, radiation-free food source for hundreds of thousands once it's constructed. The standard equipment weapons of the City Defense Army can handle most wasteland monsters, yet won't encourage them to venture too deep into some forbidden zones.

It's crucial to note that even the Ancient Lost Empire required some high-tier combat units to face the offspring of the Old Gods.

Unless a genuine Spiritual Ascension happened in the Wasteland Plane, Su Ziyu wouldn't reveal any technology related to the Spiritual Ability Element, considering that the endpoint of the Ancient Lost Empire was self-destruction.

Spiritual Ascension is uncontrollable.

The lightweight modular manufacturing technology currently mastered by Su Ying can increase the civilization reconstruction speed in the Wasteland Plane by at least tenfold. The human Ancient Lost Empire originally utilized these modular production lines to counter the proliferation division of the swarm.

The most advanced modular production technology operates with efficiency on par with the swarm's proliferation division. They merely need to establish a modular production workshop, and the mineral collection devices automatically transport and synthesize the necessary materials. In just a few days, they could construct a forward base of the Empire on an uninhabited planet.