Purpose and MS

The biggest difference between humans and animals was that human actions had purpose, while animal actions were instinctive.

So, Section Chief Zhou now had only two questions left.

One of them was: what exactly was Guo Yi's purpose in doing this?

For money?

He had laundered drug money from all over the world, amounting to at least several billion. And if he could do it once, he could do it a second time.

Not to mention that if he casually let even a little of the technology in his hands leak out, he could become the leader of a monopolized industry in minutes. Even antitrust laws would not be able to stop him.

After all, even if he threw out his technology, unless every single step was laid out in meticulous detail, no one knew how many years it would take to reverse-engineer or crack it.

That was not just the assessment of a Special Operations Department section chief. Elder Zhou and Elder Zhao had told him so after chatting with Guo Yi.

And for fame?

Guo Yi had stayed here quietly by himself for nearly ten years. Aside from occasionally going out, this shut-in had never left the place.

No matter how he looked at it, it was not for fame.

Power?

That was perhaps the only possibility...

After all, the things in Guo Yi's hands were like a scorpion taking a dump—one of a kind.

Using technology to seek power was not impossible.

So Section Chief Zhou had to confirm what Guo Yi wanted before reporting it to the appropriate people. Only then could those people weigh the gains and losses and decide on an answer.

Hearing Section Chief Zhou's words, Guo Yi thought carefully for a moment before seriously telling him, "I want to go out and take a look!

"I want to see the universe!"

As he spoke, Guo Yi raised his head to look at the Gundam. "What is out there in the universe? Do aliens exist? Could there be creatures capable of surviving in space? What are other civilizations like?

"Don't you think that, compared to the universe, what we know and see is far too tiny and boring?"

Seeing Guo Yi's expression, the two elders smiled and nodded in agreement. "We're curious too. Or perhaps every scientist is curious about the universe.

"It's just that we have no way to explore it..."

"So I'll do it!" Guo Yi nodded and said with grave seriousness, "You guys are too slow. By the time you develop space-related technology, the sun will probably have burned out, and you still won't have left the Milky Way!

"So I'll do it!"

"..." The two elders, who had been smiling warmly, froze mid-motion, then shook their heads with helpless, bitter smiles.

"Then the last question." Section Chief Zhou studied Guo Yi carefully, nodded, and continued, "Where did all this knowledge of yours come from?

"Rebirth? Transmigration? A system? An alien civilization?"

Section Chief Zhou narrowed his eyes and listed several very trendy possibilities.

"None of those." After a pause, Guo Yi frowned and said, "Actually, I don't know where it came from either... It's as though this knowledge has always existed in my mind.

"There's an enormous space in my head, like a library. Whenever I want to understand something, the corresponding technological knowledge appears.

"So far, I don't know what technologies I don't know, nor do I know how much technology I do know.

"It's just that many things are limited by materials and the industrial system. Even if I know them, I can't conduct experiments."

Hearing Guo Yi's words, Section Chief Zhou nodded. "So everything you're currently studying is related to space?

"Then why the Gundam?

"Interstellar travel requires spacecraft, life-support systems, and habitable environments.

"Wouldn't those technologies be more useful for exploring the universe?

"Why make humanoid weapons of war first?"

"Humanoid robots have already been proven completely unsuitable and impractical for use within an atmosphere.

"In the military, whether aircraft or tanks, their cost-effectiveness cannot compare with these so-called Gundams at all.

"And in special environments, animal-shaped robots are more suitable for complex terrain."

Following Section Chief Zhou's line of thought, Elder Zhou also asked curiously, "Isn't that fully enclosed exoskeleton of yours quite good?"

Guo Yi rolled his eyes. "Being handsome lasts a lifetime. Being strong only lasts for a while!"

"..."

"Seriously!" Elder Zhao could not help rubbing Guo Yi's head as he said sternly, "If you keep talking nonsense, I'm going to pull rank as an elder!"

"Alright, alright." Seeing that Elder Zhou also looked like he wanted to make a move, Guo Yi grinned ingratiatingly. "Elders, don't hit me. I'll explain!"

Guo Yi smoothed down the few strands of hair that had been messed up, then seriously explained to everyone, "First: the main purpose of humanoid forms is for space, not combat within the atmosphere.

"After all, in space, humanoid machines are far more versatile than existing aircraft, tanks, and the like!

"And they're also the most suitable for humans to operate!

"In space, humanoid robots only need to equip the appropriate gear to handle all kinds of situations.

"But if equipment tailored to each situation were separately deployed, never mind how much equipment would be needed—just how many pilots and logistics personnel would be required for all that specialized equipment?"

And a Gundam only needed some specialized equipment and a universal engineering backpack to handle all of that.

It could even stockpile some resources and, under certain specific circumstances, modify its equipment to deal with corresponding special situations.

Second: the argument that humanoid robots were useless in atmospheric warfare was based on comparisons of attributes such as attack power, defense, mobility, cost, and logistics.

But the Gundams I had developed now were basically immune to damage from existing physical weapons as long as they had energy.

Their agility even allowed them to spin, jump, and dodge up, down, left, right, A, B, A, B within a confined area.

Other than speed and mobility being unable to compare with those supersonic Fighter Jets in the atmosphere, their defense, combat power, detection capabilities, and so on completely crushed Fighter Jets.

Not to mention in space, in a zero-gravity environment!

As for logistics, equip them with AI. No need to understand anything—just repair whatever was broken according to the diagrams. Was that really difficult?

Ever heard of modularization?

Third: Phase-shift armor had to consume a massive amount of energy, but energy was currently the least of my concerns.

Therefore, the minimum size of the equipment had effectively been fixed. You could install it on tanks or aircraft too, but once equipped, they would no longer be compact—they would become equally massive machines.

It was like putting a sports car engine into a wooden carriage. It was not impossible; the question was whether it could take it.

Or did you want to see a tank hit 400 km/h and then pull a drift through a sewer?

And besides, if you wanted to convert an equally massive aircraft or tank into three-dimensional combat equipment, you would have to add new weapons and corresponding equipment, making it even larger.

In the end, the tank would only become an aerial fortress. Would it still be a tank then?

And an aerial fortress would not cost the same as an aircraft or a tank, whether in manpower or materials.

So, taking everything into account, humanoid robots were still the most cost-effective option!

Fourth: the operating system!

A Gundam's control system needed to work in tandem with brainwaves to achieve the required degree of responsiveness!

If it were not humanoid, then while piloting it, the pilot would have to constantly imagine themselves as the corresponding shape of the equipment, then imagine the movements and postures that shape should make.

Simply put, if you stuffed a person's soul into a fish's body, tell me—how was that person supposed to control the fish's body?

Of course, multiple layers of mental conversion could be implemented here.

But once it was made, were you sure ordinary people could use it?

Forget the increased chance of mistakes in high-intensity combat. Just the Mental Load alone would leave the pilot able to chat away with psychiatric patients after a single battle!

It was like using flight simulator software to drive a coal-burning train. They simply could not be matched."

"As for using E-Carbon as armor or external attachments for aircraft and tanks, E-Carbon was indeed highly impact-resistant against low- to mid-level collisions. But once a certain threshold was exceeded, it was not much different from ordinary alloys.

Not to mention defending against Beam weapons or Particle weapons..."

Suddenly, Elder Zhou interrupted Guo Yi's explanation and asked, "Beam weapons? Particle weapons?"