"Do you want to answer now?"
Black Cat gently tightened her collar, exhaled a comfortable breath, and said, "It's so warm."
Hitachi seemed to have given up the struggle. Using the last shred of his strength, he hoarsely shouted, "What on earth do you want to ask?!"
Hearing Hitachi's shout, Black Cat couldn't help narrowing her eyes. The corners of her mouth curved slightly upward as she took a four-inch photograph from her pocket and placed it in front of Hitachi. "First of all, do you know this person?"
Guo Yi!
The person in the photo was Guo Yi!
A Guo Yi who was clearly still underage!
That was why Hitachi couldn't help his pupils constrict.
Although he had never seen Guo Yi in the flesh, he had seen him in a certain mysterious place.
When he was learning exoskeleton armor maintenance technology from someone there, he had seen a projection of Guo Yi.
Although he did not know Guo Yi's specific name, identity, position, or other information.
Just by the fact that Guo Yi dared to point and yell right in the face of the person who taught him, while that person could only silently lower his head in shame, he knew that his status was not low and he was far from ordinary.
In fact, Hitachi strongly suspected that that place was the birthplace of the exoskeleton. At the same time, this person might be closely related to the birth of the exoskeleton.
However, all of this should have been a secret!
Why did the person before him actually know?
"Have you seen him?"
Watching the silent Hitachi, Black Cat softly asked, "Have you seen him?"
"No—"
As if he had just finished recalling, Hitachi smiled bitterly and said, "I haven't seen him!"
"Heh—"
Hearing Hitachi's answer, Black Cat shook her head with a smile, looking as if she were very dissatisfied.
Then she pinched Hitachi's mouth open with one hand. "Sigh, you've been starving for a day and a night, it must feel awful!
Come on, I've brought you something to eat.
Don't worry, it's very easy to digest!"
Black Cat folded Guo Yi's photo in half, stuffed it into Hitachi's mouth, and then covered Hitachi's mouth with her palm, as if to prevent him from spitting it out.
As for Hitachi, after the photo entered his mouth, his expression suddenly changed. Then he widened his eyes, staring fixedly at Black Cat.
Black Cat looked into Hitachi's eyes and smiled calmly.
Then she raised a finger to the middle of her lips. "Don't thank me!"
Right after that, Black Cat delivered a knee strike directly to Hitachi's lower dantian.
At the same time, the hand covering his mouth quickly let go.
Cough cough—
Struck by the heavy blow, Hitachi first kept his mouth tightly shut, and then couldn't help retching dryly.
Unfortunately, only foul-smelling gastric juices came up, without any actual debris.
Black Cat waved her hand in disgust and turned around to leave.
Before leaving, she even deliberately instructed the passerby guard standing watch by the vehicle: "Don't let him die, and don't let him fall asleep!
If he dies, you'll go down with him. If he falls asleep, you'll sleep forever too!"
After Black Cat left, that passerby guard immediately walked up to Hitachi, slashed Hitachi's thigh with a dagger, and then sprinkled clotting powder over it.
The piercing pain of the sharp blade entering his flesh made Hitachi's expression exceptionally ferocious.
"You'd better pull yourself together and force yourself not to fall asleep.
Otherwise, I'll only have this way of waking people up!"
The passerby guard finished speaking, wiped the dagger clean on Hitachi's face, and stood aside in a cold, sneering daze.
In this boundless desert, he could react to the slightest movement, so why bother tensing his nerves to keep a round-the-clock watch?
Time slowly ticked away like this.
Meanwhile, the other factions finally learned that the Rabbit's sole expatriate personnel who understood exoskeleton technology had been kidnapped.
Therefore, they all set up their benches, grabbed melon seeds, brought along tea, and quietly waited for the moves of the Rabbit and the Dog Tycoon.
At the same time, because Black Cat left very few loose ends and no organization claimed responsibility for the incident, twenty-four hours later, the Dog Tycoon and the Rabbit still made no move.
The Dog Tycoon truly had no move to make; with no target to speak of, they were completely clueless as well.
As for the Rabbit...
Inside the factory, a Transport-7 military transport plane quietly sat in the space battleship manufacturing deck.
And this aircraft had been hoisted directly over from He Zhijun's base...
It had been carried over directly while wearing the Qiongqi Exoskeleton Armor...
At the same time, all the logistics personnel inside the factory gathered in one place.
The various National Treasures also rarely stepped out of their laboratory doors and waited quietly here.
Yawning, Guo Yi arrived wearing a neat, specially made uniform.
"Little Ding-dong, this is Elder Gu. He specializes in aircraft-related matters."
Seeing Guo Yi arrive, Elder Zhou immediately pulled a National Treasure over to his side. "You can talk to him about anything related to planes.
As for us, we heard about that matter, so we came here to see if there's anything we can help with."
"Hahaha—" Elder Gu laughed heartily with Guo Yi. "Things that swim in the sea or run on the ground, I can't beat them.
But when it comes to things that fly in the sky, aside from you, everyone else—take them all one by one.
In front of me, they're all scum!"
"Great, then I'll have to trouble you, Elder Gu."
Seeing that there really was an aircraft expert present, Guo Yi also smiled with relief: I can slack off now!
Next, Old Huang also stepped forward alongside Elder Zhou. "All one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two logistics personnel in the factory are fully assembled!
The eighty-one crew trainees are also fully assembled.
What do you want to do?"
Guo Yi looked at everyone present wearing training suits and nodded in satisfaction.
Twenty minutes ago, Guo Yi had suddenly contacted Elder Zhou and the others, telling everyone to put on their training suits and concentrate at the space battleship location.
However, up until now, they still had no idea what Guo Yi specifically wanted to do.
Except for Gao Linlin...
"Go on up."
Thus, looking at the hesitant Guo Yi, Gao Linlin opened her mouth and laughed boldly. "You said it yourself, the path you choose yourself, you have to crawl to the finish line even if you have to kneel!"
"Damn it!" Guo Yi scratched his head and glared at Gao Linlin: This wretch actually set him up while his thinking was unclear.
As a result, he really fell for the trap.
Under the stimulation of male hormones, he had actually patted his chest and declared that with him taking charge, by the time He Zhijun finished discussing the rescue plan, he would have already rescued the person back!
Then, wearing an expression as if he were generously going to his death, Guo Yi stepped in front of the formation. "You can ask Elder Zhou and the others later about the nitty-gritty details.
I'll tell you directly what you need to do.
In a moment, this place will enter a zero-gravity state.
Everyone will put on the zero-gravity auxiliary equipment later and first get used to how to move around.
At the same time, divide into groups, and after you get the hang of it, dismantle that Transport-7 over there for me according to your assigned tasks!"
Following Guo Yi's words, freight robots began to continuously emerge from the passageway.
Atop each robot lay a backpack, along with a special pair of goggles covering the back of the head.
In fact, these pieces of equipment had already been produced long ago; it was just that training hadn't reached the point of using them yet, so they hadn't been brought out.
Now that the situation was urgent, they would just wing it for the time being.
Afterwards, Guo Yi projected his image in front of everyone and lectured the crowd while putting on his gear. "Put away this convenient helmet tactical visor yourselves after you're done, and do the same for the air jet backpack.
Once the gas inside runs out, you can refill it in the dormitories and other locations.
As for how to use it, you just think about where you want the nozzle to spray."
After explaining, Guo Yi walked over to the National Treasures. "Elder Gu, I'll send the modification blueprints to you first.
Time is too tight, so everything will be kept as simple as possible.
We'll talk about anything you don't understand later. You and Old Huang should arrange manpower first to dismantle the Transport-7 as quickly as possible."
"Mm." Looking at the blueprints transmitted by Guo Yi, Elder Gu furrowed his brows and nodded: Too crude.
The transport plane, which originally required two pilots, was exceptionally simple after the magic modification, featuring only a handful of control sticks and buttons.
No fire suppression system, no flight control system, no fuel system, no engine vibration monitoring, and so on.
It felt as crude as a toy airplane.
At the same time, there were recessed devices on both the top and bottom of the plane, with two nozzles on the belly—one at the front and one at the back.
It felt as though several holes had simply been punched through the top and bottom of the aircraft.
"And Sister Gao, have you found the people I wanted?"
"Mm, bold, unafraid of death, veteran pilots with rich flight experience.
I've already contacted the air force side, and they've already dispatched them to you.
They're expected to arrive tomorrow afternoon."
"Alright." Guo Yi nodded to everyone. "I'm counting on you all here; I'm going to go make the corresponding equipment."
"Go!"
Elder Gu patted Guo Yi on the shoulder. "Saving people is urgent, we'll stay here and watch over the dismantling work for you!"
Guo Yi nodded, turned around, and walked toward the material production deck: some equipment didn't exist yet and required him to craft it himself.
A tense, bustling atmosphere instantly unfolded.
Everyone began to act in an orderly fashion.
Thanks to the tycoon "Yin Shi Bu Zheng" for four consecutive days of tipping!