“My God, Xiao, you bought a heavy truck?”

The four teammates were invited to the garage. Li Yalin and Lin Yao looked amazed and excited, climbing all over the heavy truck. Lambert was very interested in the engine structure and opened the hood to admire it silently.

Zhang Wei came to Han Xiao’s side and said solemnly, “Thank you.”

A support vehicle was a luxury for a small team. Han Xiao’s willingness to pay out of his own pocket made Zhang Wei feel embarrassed.

Han Xiao chuckled. “Just consider it my way of helping out my impoverished teammates.”

Zhang Wei’s mouth twitched violently, speechless. Although it was true, why did his honesty make him feel so bad?

“I racked my brains and came up with a name for this truck.”

Zhang Wei perked up his ears, looking forward to it.

Han Xiao cleared his throat and said seriously, “Big Black.”

Zhang Wei’s foot slipped, and he forced a smile. “Good, good name.”

“You think so too, right? Easy to pronounce, concise, I admire myself.” Han Xiao clicked his tongue.

“…Whatever makes you happy.”

“The cab is so big.” Li Yalin was having a great time, then suddenly thought of something and asked, “Who’s going to drive?”

Han Xiao: “It’s my car, of course I’ll drive.”

Li Yalin’s face turned pale instantly, recalling the fear of being dominated by Han Xiao, and she trembled. “C-Can I not ride?”

Zhang Wei frowned and scolded, “Han Xiao is spending money to give us convenience, why are you refusing?”

Li Yalin’s face was ashen, feeling hopeless, and she muttered, “You’ll regret it.”

Regret? Zhang Wei didn’t understand what Li Yalin meant. Did she mean Han Xiao was a bad driver?

What was the big deal, how bad could his driving be? Everyone was a well-trained agent with excellent physical qualities. They wouldn’t even get carsick on a roller coaster, what was there to be afraid of?

Zhang Wei didn’t think much of it.

“By the way, headquarters told us that we’ll be leaving in four days.” Lin Yao suddenly said.

Han Xiao’s eyes flashed. His full-body modification had taken about ten days. He originally wanted to install turrets on the heavy truck and had even learned the knowledge, but unfortunately there wasn’t enough time. He thought for a while and said to Zhang Wei, “Bring the Wanderer Armor over, I’ll modify it for you.”

Zhang Wei’s eyes lit up. He had great faith in Han Xiao’s mechanical skills.

Li Yalin immediately jumped over, grabbed Han Xiao’s shoulders and shook him repeatedly, asking, “What about me, what about me? You promised to make equipment tailored for me.”

“I’ll talk about it when I have inspiration.”

Han Xiao brushed aside the chattering Li Yalin. As a martial artist, she should just use her fists to punch people, why was she always eyeing his mecha?

The Wanderer Armor prototype was quickly delivered, like armor on display in a museum, supported by a plastic skeleton and placed in a tall metal box. The logistics personnel were the salted fish from the logistics department.

Han Xiao: “Time is limited, I’m going to make the most necessary modifications, first is to increase the energy efficiency limit, then the power mode, reduce the load, fill the mechanical power inner skeleton, to provide assistance for your actions.”

“That’s great.” Zhang Wei’s face lit up. This armor was too heavy, and every time he used it, his back ached, his legs cramped, and it was more tiring than running ten thousand meters.

“Then there’s the detection system. I’ll install a simple chip in your armor to detect the outside situation, and I can personally give you a fire control system so that your ranged weapons can aim automatically.”

“If time permits, I’ll equip you with a simple melee weapon.”

“Good!” Zhang Wei was overjoyed, completely reduced to a salted fish shouting “666”.

Han Xiao suddenly changed the subject, “Of course, all of this is charged, a total of 360,000.”

“H-How much?!”

Zhang Wei’s heart suddenly cooled down. He only had less than a million in savings.

“You think it’s expensive?” Han Xiao glanced at him sideways.

Zhang Wei nodded quickly.

“Are your parents still alive?”

Zhang Wei was stunned. “Why are you asking this? They’ve already passed away.”

“Do you have any siblings?”

“I’m the only child in the family.”

“Do you have a wife or girlfriend?”

“N-No, I’m all alone.”

Han Xiao tilted his head, looking strange. “Then what are you saving money for?”

Ten thousand arrows pierced his heart!

“Huff…don’t say anymore, I’ll pay!” Zhang Wei painfully covered his heart, feeling as if his heart had been bombarded by ten thousand rhinos.

…

Han Xiao wouldn’t let go until he saw the rabbit. After receiving the advance payment that Zhang Wei handed over tremblingly, he began to modify the Wanderer Armor prototype.

With [Basic Energy Theory] level 3, Han Xiao possessed the technology to enhance energy power. He didn’t want to make super-strong modifications to Zhang Wei’s armor for the time being, so he didn’t want to create blueprints for new energy sources. He would save the good stuff for himself, of course.

The power load-bearing skeleton and detection chip could be used in blueprints; these two were more common.

[Perform Knowledge Fusion (Basic Wide-Area Sensing Lv1 + Basic Virtual Electronic Technology Lv2), this fusion consumes 10,000 experience.]

[Perform Knowledge Fusion (Basic Mechanics Principles Lv2 + Basic Mechanical Engineering Lv4), this fusion consumes 10,000 experience.]

[Fusion successful, congratulations on developing the [Low-Level Intelligent Chip]!]

[Fusion successful, congratulations on developing the [K600-Type Powered Inner Skeleton]!]

These were two very common mechanical blueprints, or rather, blueprints that any mechanical class would have to learn. Han Xiao wasn’t surprised that he fused them in one go.

Low-level intelligent chips were also sold on the market. The difference was that after unlocking the blueprints, Han Xiao could DIY them himself and program them at will. Seeing the word “low-level,” he knew that this blueprint had a higher-level version in the future. Advanced AI for large robots, or system intelligence for controlling vehicles or warships, were all advanced versions of this basic blueprint.

K600-Type Powered Inner Skeleton, one of the basic models in the inner skeleton series.

Powered exoskeletons were worn directly on the body, while powered inner skeletons were the internal power structure of full-coverage armor, hidden inside the armor. Their function was similar to exoskeletons, providing extra power. Powered inner skeletons were a necessary condition for manufacturing powered armor. It wasn’t hard to guess the more advanced applications: small mecha, medium mecha, large mecha, very large mecha, etc.

Han Xiao disassembled the Wanderer’s outer armor, exposing the internal precision parts. Han Xiao looked at it for a while, then rolled up his sleeves and started working.

First, he increased the energy power, then built the skeleton, manufactured the processing chip, and purchased some cameras, detectors, and infrared sensors as detection equipment.

In the early morning of the fourth day, he finally completed the modification of the Wanderer Armor.

The appearance was still the same black, heavy heavy armor, but the inside had been greatly changed, finally having a prototype of powered armor.

However, there was no time to make melee weapons, so Han Xiao gave up. It wasn’t normal to collect money and not do the job? His order for high-explosive ammunition had been put on hold for half a month.

Han Xiao yawned and looked at the panel.

[[Wanderer Armor] Deduction Progress 2%.]

Reverse-engineering blueprints was one of the ways mechanics obtained blueprints, and the requirements were very harsh. Generally, it would be stuck at a certain progress and then prompt for prerequisites. For example, when researching to 30% progress, it would suddenly pop up a requirement that “Intelligence must be greater than xx”. Only after reaching that could the progress continue. Even if the progress was full, it would require a lot of experience to formally learn the blueprint.

The core of the [Wanderer Armor] was the Mechanic Advanced Knowledge [Heavy Armor Modification]. It was estimated that at 50% progress, this prerequisite would pop up. The Wanderer Armor blueprint wasn’t a necessity for Han Xiao, so he ignored it.

Today was the day of departure. The four-person team gathered in the garage. Lin Yao looked at the computer and suddenly said, “The bureau has gathered, the location is the eastern outpost.”

“Okay, let’s get in the car!” Zhang Wei said in a deep voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yalin rushed to the driver’s seat with lightning speed, staring nervously at Han Xiao. “C-Can, can I drive?”

Han Xiao rubbed his eyes. He had stayed up for a few days and was so sleepy that he was almost ascending to heaven, so he didn’t insist. He said, “Drive safely,” then walked to the cargo compartment, took a few backpacks as blankets, and lay down on the ground to sleep.

Li Yalin immediately breathed a sigh of relief, feeling like she had escaped death, and even didn’t have the strength to complain that Han Xiao actually had the nerve to tell her to drive safely.

Seeing that Han Xiao wanted to sleep, the others got into the cab without disturbing him.

…

West Capital, eastern outpost, military train station.

Headquarters attached great importance to the operation to attack the Dark Raven Valley base. The Thirteenth Bureau had sent three secret operations teams to participate in this large-scale joint operation.

One was Zhang Wei’s team, one was Ma Qingyang’s team… the team that Zhang Wei rescued.

The last team was the secret operations department’s ace team, Di Sisu’s team. She was the team leader.

At this time, these two secret operations teams were waiting at the station. Next to them was an officer from the General Staff Department, acting as an accompanying staff officer and supervisor to constrain the actions of the secret service agents.

There had been precedents in the past. Every secret service team was made up of elite agents with strong opinions, and disagreements easily arose during operations, leading to independent actions that ultimately caused accidents. In response, the Thirteenth Bureau adjusted its personnel strategy. When multiple teams cooperated, a member of the General Staff Department would be sent to coordinate the overall situation.

The officers of the General Staff Department studied various battlefield command knowledge year-round and would learn about the team members’ information before departure to plan for the operation… Although the agents unanimously believed that the accompanying staff officer was useless except for writing battle reports and taking the blame, the rules were the rules. As long as the staff officer didn’t interfere, everyone could get along peacefully.

“Why hasn’t that Zhang Wei arrived yet? What time is it?”

Ma Qingyang looked up at the sun and took a puff of his cigarette in frustration. He had a good relationship with Zhang Wei, and the members of the two teams got along well.

Di Sisu led her team to wait on the other side, playing with a coin in her hand. The coin flipped quickly between her skillful fingers, reflecting the dazzling sunlight. She was looking forward to meeting Li Yalin later, and she felt excited at the thought of bullying Little Linlin again. She was also very curious about Li Yalin’s new teammate, the mechanic named Han Xiao.

The leading staff officer, Qi Baijia, rubbed his beautiful eyebrows, his eyes hurt by the reflection of the coin. Helpless, he had to turn his face away.

A rumbling engine sound came from afar. Just listening to the sound, one could imagine its enormous power. Even through his boots, he could feel the ground vibrating slightly. Qi Baijia looked towards the source of the sound. In the distance, a ferocious and massive modified military heavy truck slowly drove in.

Ma Qingyang threw down his cigarette butt and stomped it out.

Di Sisu clenched her five fingers, grabbing the coin in her palm.

Qi Baijia raised his hand and straightened his collar.

“They’re here.”