Tai Yu sighed for no apparent reason. "I've played a lot of Star Road and Covenant, so I picked up some basics. Especially exoskeletons like those used by the Garrison Regiment—they follow the same design philosophy as the Black Cricket from the Sky Abyss Empire back then. Classic models that are useless on the battlefield but indispensable to newbies. Besides, I've always been interested in machinery from the Tianyuan and Hanguang lineages..."
"True. In Covenant, everyone who took part in the Sky Abyss Empire event got a Black Cricket. Newbies have played with them until they're sick of them. But there can't be many people who actually delve deeply into them. No wonder you get along so well with those two Hanguang Mercenaries!"
Jia Xi suddenly understood, though he could not help feeling a little yearning.
In fact, the biggest reason Jia Xi had been sold on the idea was Pusuo's son, Pudong. After being carried by a Celestial-level Hanguang Mercenary and experiencing a meditative state, Jia Xi had begun harboring hopes of his own. But thinking about it now only made him worry about his wife and child. For a moment, all he could do was shake his head and force a bitter smile. "The equipment supplied by the Xi Clan Consortium really does have a long history. They update it frequently, but the core design philosophy has never changed. Thankfully, the Sky Abyss Empire's equipment designs were classic enough to withstand it. In truth, many of those frameworks were brought into civilian use tens of thousands of years ago, even before Covenant World..."
The two of them naturally began discussing specific technical details again, while also mocking the Red Silicon Star System's extremely slapdash technological innovation process under the Xi Clan Consortium's leadership. Most of the time, Jia