Chapter 104 It's Time to Show Real Skills

Among the three HCPs in the spare hangar, Amber was the fastest to be dispatched.

After rushing into the hangar, the maintenance team did not even need to communicate, and rushed directly to the position of Unit 1 closest to Amber to carry out various tasks before starting.

They also knew that the other two HCP pilots were real rookies. After all, outstanding talents will be assigned to various fleets first.

Most of the HCP pilots who stayed on the surface were not able to adapt to space combat, or their skills were generally poor and could only bully rookies on the ground.

So it is obvious that if these two rookies were allowed to complete the maintenance and attack first, it would only add two more knockdown marks to the shoulder armor of the aggressive Imperial HCP outside.

Psychic agents are different.

An excellent HCP pilot is not necessarily a psychic agent, but a psychic agent is definitely an excellent HCP pilot.

These guys, who originally had various abilities, especially spatial perception abilities, surpassed ordinary people. After undergoing body modification, they were even more comfortable driving HCPs.

So the people in the maintenance class naturally knew how to prioritize the maintenance work.

There is no need to unlock these three Steppenwolves.

In other words, except for extremely confidential equipment, this kind of conventional military equipment basically does not have a complicated identity verification process. Otherwise, it would be funny to use facial recognition when you are in an emergency.

Being able to enter here and activate this hangar through identity verification at the gate already means that the user has the corresponding authority.

"Warrant Officer Amber, what configuration do you want?!"

The squad leader of the maintenance squad asked loudly while climbing up the gantry crane next to the HCP.

"Standard ground combat configuration, with additional jet components installed on the legs!"

Amber answered while putting on a one-piece heavy hydraulic anti-gravity suit with the help of another maintenance soldier.

"Understood, sir!"

The three Steppenwolves stored in the hangar are obviously maintained regularly by the maintenance squad.

Not only are the components visually normal and there is no sign of lack of maintenance, but even the maintenance team leader found that the Steppenwolf's superconducting battery stack still has 80% of residual power after connecting to his personal terminal through the external interface.

So in this case, the maintenance process of the entire machine has been shortened a lot.

As several mechanical arms installed the "standard ground combat configuration" Gauss rifle, small shield, plasma heavy sword, folding heavy particle cannon, and folding electromagnetic reconnection cannon on the weapon rack of the HCP in turn.

Amber also put on the heavy hydraulic anti-gravity suit, stepped on the pedals on the boarding cable to rise to the cockpit, and then got in.

After he sat down, several cables on the seat were automatically connected to the interfaces on the arms, legs, and spine of the anti-gravity suit.

When the cockpit door was lowered and closed, the spherical screen of the full-circle cockpit also lit up immediately.

Amber saw the squad leader of the maintenance team standing on the slowly moving fixed bracket, and made a "everything is normal" gesture to herself.

Then, Lilith's virtual image appeared in the cockpit.

After this AI was connected to the body, it immediately took over the original combat assistance AI.

"Lilith, enter the emergency startup process, and skip the three, six, nine, and eleventh steps of the self-check program."

"Activate the control system, select the default mapping value, start the subcritical reactor to inject proton beams, and start the plasma propulsion array in an emergency."

If you ask Amber what his favorite thing to do in the game "Starry Sky" is.

He will definitely say without hesitation: "Drive the big robot!"

In his previous life, in addition to guild battles and daily grinds, his favorite thing to do in the game was to drive the HCP from low orbit to participate in various battles.

Since crossing into this world, he has not touched the HCP in more than a month, and the whole person has been itching to do it.

So when the thumbnails representing the various modules of the HCP on the panoramic display turned green one by one, and the control operating system was completely connected to his body.

Amber felt like he was reborn.

"The subcritical reactor is working properly, all subsystems are working properly, and the weapon system has completed power storage!"

"Master, we can go!"

Rudolf never thought that after he had done his homework on anti-psychic combat and deliberately drove a new aircraft that was "specialized against psychics", and then found the target with the support of friendly units.

The first battle he faced was a HCP battle.

"NND, this script is wrong."

Facing the Steppenwolf that rushed out of the smoke wielding a plasma heavy sword, Rudolf put away his gun, set up a shield, activated the deflection force field, and then took out the physical sword from his back without thinking.

Although the area and height of the hangar door are very spacious for people, it is still a bit small for a 9-meter-high HCP.

So in the absence of dodging and displacement space, facing a HCP that was drawing a sword and rushing at high speed, Rudolf could only switch to a melee weapon to enter a combat battle.

But after just two moves, Rudolf found something wrong.

The movements of the HCP on the other side are really weird.

Specifically, it doesn't have the stiffness of a regular pilot flying an HCP with the assistance of AI, but it's like an enlarged human is holding a sword and slashing at you.

The only ones who can do this are veteran pilots who have undergone full-body transformation surgery and have reserved many interfaces on their bodies, as well as

"Damn, psychics."

After this thought popped into his mind, Rudolf got out of the fight without hesitation and fled towards the passage he came from.

He had imagined too many scenes of a second duel with Amber before.

But he never thought that Amber would also sit on the HCP.

"So how come there is a well-prepared HCP in this base area?!"

It's no wonder that Lieutenant Rudolf retreated without a fight.

It's true that the HCP driven by psychics, whether in terms of reaction speed or accuracy of action mapping, is far superior to that of regular pilots.

It's like you are wearing seven or eight thick cotton coats and trousers, and you have to tie sandbags to your hands and feet.

And the other person is only wearing a pair of shorts.

"Olivine! I need support here. Also notify the friendly forces to send more HCPs. This guy is a bit tricky!"

"Got it, 'Volcano Stone', move closer to my position, I'll come to support you."

Olivine, who was on the bridgehead, pulled out his plasma heavy sword from the turret of a mammoth.

Looking at the last remaining electromagnetic reconnector gun that was damaged, the mammoth was covered with scars, and the surviving Wolf Spider modified next to it.

Olivine received a sentence through the loudspeaker: "You guys, you are lucky today"

Then he rushed to the location where the Rudolph body sent the signal.