Mecha Master: Rebirth in a New World
Chapter 9

Martial Armor Combat Suit

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A member of the Skywing Mercenary Group, clad in a full-body armored combat suit, wore sunglasses shaped like the lens covers on the helmet's eye pieces. The suit was a sleek silver-gray, with streamlined stripes running from the body to the thighs, and a pair of small thrusters on its back.

Following instructions, he entered a special simulated virtual room.

In front of him was a simulated combat weapon. A broadcast from the room instructed the mercenary to equip the gear.

The room's environment suddenly changed. Surrounding him were dilapidated buildings, many showing bullet holes or reduced to rubble from bomb blasts.

The mercenary was inside a ruined building.

He immediately took cover behind an obstacle, and his quantum exploration system began scanning the environment within a 50-meter radius centered on him.

He detected three enemies on the upper floor, in different rooms. The mercenary activated his stealth function and cautiously infiltrated the upper floor, each step silent.

The three enemies had no idea the mercenary had arrived. He drew his combat knife and silently eliminated all three.

He then remained cloaked, exited the building, and activated the scanner on his helmet. It detected three enemies in different ruined structures.

A warning indicator popped up in his field of vision: stealth would be deactivated in 20 seconds. The mercenary quickly hid inside a building and then deactivated his stealth, becoming visible.

A mission objective appeared in his vision: eliminate the three detected enemies.

Using cover to advance, the mercenary reached a sniping position, lay down, and set up his sniper rifle. The small computer in his helmet had already calculated the distance to the target and the windage.

The mercenary adjusted the sniper rifle's scope, squeezed the trigger, and the shot struck the target's head, blowing it apart.

The remaining two targets immediately sought cover for their safety.

The mercenary immediately relocated.

After sniping the second enemy, he immediately moved to a new position.

However, he encountered an enemy tank en route. The tank's turret aimed at the mercenary. He immediately activated the thrusters on his back. The moment the tank fired, the mercenary shot into the air like a rocket.

As he landed, he used his thrusters to perform several ascents and descents, disappearing into the cluster of buildings.

Subsequently, several enemy infantry squads pursued the mercenary.

Using the ruined buildings and his back thrusters, the mercenary utilized the high ground and his brief aerial combat capabilities, attacking from above to eliminate the pursuing infantry squads one by one.

Then, he plummeted from the sky, landing directly above the tank. He punched through the turret's top cover, then tossed a grenade inside the tank. Activating his back thrusters, he flew to a dilapidated tall building. The tank exploded, spewing black smoke.

Finally, inside the tall building, the mercenary spotted the third target moving. Using his vantage point, he sniped the target.

Upon completing the mission, the environment reverted to its original state.

However, a tank now sat in the scene, its 105mm high-pressure smoothbore tank gun aimed directly at the mercenary.

The broadcast instructed the mercenary to activate the combat suit's defensive function, [Adamant]. The mercenary complied, and the entire suit suddenly took on a marble-like surface.

The tank fired, hitting the mercenary directly. Thick smoke erupted. When the smoke cleared, the mercenary was unharmed. However, the activated [Adamant] function had reached its threshold limit and could not be reactivated for a time. The combat suit's appearance returned to normal.

Meanwhile, Long Fei and the responsible team observed the mercenary testing the combat suit from the observation room, looking at the data provided by the computer.

"Boss, the [Adamant] function has reached its threshold limit," the person in charge reported truthfully, looking at the computer data.

The other two members of the team were dumbfounded, surprised by the high defensive power of the defensive function of the armored combat suit designed and developed by their boss.

This was because a single shot from a 105mm high-pressure smoothbore tank gun could penetrate the armor of a light MS.

"Understood. Next, let's test its space combat capabilities."

The simulated virtual room's environment changed again, creating a zero-gravity space environment.

During the test, the suit's internal balance function automatically activated when the mercenary lost balance while flying, immediately stabilizing him and allowing him to continue flying.

Next, they tested combat in the space environment, followed by combat capabilities in various other environments, including underwater.

The combat suit's thrusters could be swapped out for different environments. For instance, during underwater combat, the back thrusters would be replaced with propellers suitable for underwater operations.

Following that, they tested other special weapons, such as the custom electromagnetic rifle and the beam sniper rifle.

Long Fei was very satisfied with the test results.

However, the combat suit was extremely expensive, with a complete set costing 2 million, significantly more than a tank. The most advanced and expensive tanks currently cost around 1 million in universal cosmic currency.

Long Fei currently planned to equip his mercenary group's designated troop types with the developed combat suit.

The first reason was the high cost, and the maintenance expenses were also not low. The second reason was primarily that the mercenary group did not have a large number of personnel. Although many countries had various military branches, mercenaries did not require too many. The infantry responsible for capturing and suppressing enemy bases, who could perform land, sea, and space combat, were collectively referred to as Suppression Soldiers within the mercenary group.

The Skywing Mercenary Group currently had only about 500 Suppression Soldiers.

If all troop types in the mercenary group were equipped with the combat suit, the Skywing Mercenary Group would immediately go bankrupt.

Long Fei also had no plans to sell the combat suit at the moment. He intended to wait until more advanced armored combat suits were developed before considering selling them.

On his way back to his office, he encountered Li Xiucheng talking with the mercenary who had tested the armored combat suit.

The mercenary testing the armored combat suit was a young man with red hair named Markway.

"Hello, boss." x2

"How do you feel about the armored combat suit?"

"I can only say it's fantastic. This kind of weapon can significantly increase our survival rate as Suppression Soldiers on the battlefield."

"Good, that's good."

Long Fei returned to his office and continued with his work. He was contemplating the development of a Gundam. Long Fei had once wanted to develop models like the Wing Gundam Zero or the Freedom Gundam, but unfortunately, most of the required materials were not available in this world. He needed to find substitutes for the necessary materials.

Just like the Gundanium Alloy he developed himself, its data was even better than the Gundanium Alloy from his previous life.

Sci-fi concepts can be imagined freely, but bringing them into reality is truly very difficult.

Technology like the Solar Furnace from Gundam 00 couldn't be created with the current technology of this world, and the Phase Shift Armor from Gundam SEED would require some time to research. Long Fei could only temporarily set those aside.

The technologies Long Fei had introduced so far indeed surpassed this world's by at least 20 years.

Currently, he had to use the technologies he mastered and possessed to develop Gundams and other things that could be manufactured.

Long Fei was also currently developing something called a Super Energy Reactor, a technology he had taken from another science fiction novel.

If the Super Energy Reactor could be developed, it could serve as the power source for the Gundams to be manufactured next.

Originally, there was the Minovsky-type Thermonuclear Reactor. If it could be developed, it would be even more ideal, but current technology simply couldn't develop it. Therefore, the GM MS and Gundams that were developed used other technologies as their power source.

The Super Energy Reactor was merely a reluctant alternative to the Minovsky-type Thermonuclear Reactor. Although the power output of the Super Energy Reactor could be on par with the Minovsky-type Thermonuclear Reactor, its endurance was not ideal. If the energy was consumed carelessly, it might run out in less than ten minutes of combat.

Long Fei reached out and rubbed his temples, sighing inwardly, "Coming to this world, all these sci-fi concepts I saw in my previous life, even though I knew they existed, for some reason, I possess the data and theories needed for these technologies. They are all in my head, and I can put them onto my computer or blueprints for research. Many things are theoretically feasible, but execution is another matter, or rather, current technology doesn't permit it."

A few hours later, Long Fei stretched his back and suddenly remembered the gold bank card his aunt had given him.

Checking the balance on the gold bank card, it contained a total of 10 billion Hanxia coins. If we convert currency, 1 Yuan of Hanxia currency is equivalent to 1.5 Universal Currency.

"I didn't expect my aunt to give me so much money. Now I can continue to develop more Gundam MS. Besides the RX Series, the GP Series can also be developed."

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