Exoskeleton Armor

Basic Exoskeleton Armor wasn't enough for them to travel directly across the vast, ravaged lands to the surviving human civilization: Base City Number Three.

The remaining energy wasn't enough for flying vehicles, and their weapons were damaged. However, as survivors living outside the base city, they definitely had a way to produce energy.

In this situation, trading a decent piece of equipment for enough food to eat, using the survival time provided by the food to produce energy, and gaining the conditions to travel to and from the base city to restart their lives was a very reasonable course of action.

Li Yang watched the woman on the screen take off her exoskeleton with shining eyes. At a glance, it looked like a human skeleton, without any sense of bulk. But it was this very exoskeleton that allowed the other party to perform feats like walking on walls and roofs, just like in martial arts movies.

"Considering the help you've provided, I will provide you with three months' worth of food. Bring that set of exoskeleton armor, along with the paper manual and a detailed description."

"I will provide you with uncontaminated food. In return, I hope you can serve me loyally."

Li Yang controlled his voice to sound condescending and spoke to the two people on the rooftop in a relaxed tone.

"Un… uncontaminated food!"

Their eyes widened in disbelief, followed by excited nods.

Li Yang looked at their excited reaction and shook his head with some helplessness.

In this world, uncontaminated food was clearly something of high rarity, and high rarity often meant high value.

Using something of such high value to exchange for common items at a lower level was clearly a very unprofitable action.

But... he only had this one thing.

I hope this food allows me to develop smoothly.

A flicker of anticipation rose in his heart. Li Yang knew very well that perhaps for him, the only capital he could possess in this world, where technology was far more advanced than Earth, was food.

He had to guard this capital carefully.

As he thought, Li Yang watched the woman in the video put the exoskeleton back on and agilely head to her residence to bring the exoskeleton armor she made to Li Yang. He then moved to retrieve the 400kg payload drone that had been specially modified earlier.

He then walked into the stairwell and controlled it to fly out of the stairwell towards the rooftop where the two slaves were.

Before long, the drone arrived. The man, who had been lying on the rooftop resting in excitement, looked at the returning drone with some surprise, unable to understand this adult's hobby. But after thinking for a moment, he politely asked the first small drone, "Adult, the exoskeleton we used wasn't made of good materials. It weighs two hundred kilograms. Can this modern little toy carry it?"

Modern little toy...

"This thing has a payload of four hundred kilograms. Don't underestimate it."

Li Yang replied indifferently. Seeing the man quickly nod in fear, he didn't bother with him anymore. After waiting for a while, he indeed saw the woman who had left return with a large box.

"Adult, this armor was made by me based on the widely circulated and universal Basic Exoskeleton Model One. Due to material limitations, it is not as strong as the Model One Basic Exoskeleton sold in stores, but it can still provide a thousand kilograms of assistance. For use in extreme environments, it uses standard Model One Batteries. Each battery can continuously provide 100 hours of full-power kinetic energy usage and 500 hours of forty percent power usage. The battery needs to be replaced after use. I have prepared twenty-five spare batteries."

"It weighs two hundred kilograms. The material's defense can withstand a five-thousand-kilogram gravity impact. It is telescopic, with a maximum usable height of 2.3 meters and a minimum usable height of 1.3 meters."

The woman opened the box and lifted out a completely black square steel object. She pressed a button in the middle, and the square steel automatically unfolded, stretching into an exoskeleton armor resembling a skeleton. She stood in front of the armor and introduced it to the drone with a smile, while also showing the Model One Battery, which was only the size of her little finger, and a stack of user manuals in her palm.

"Okay, put it in the box and tie it onto the drone."

Li Yang's calm voice sounded from the small drone. Following that, the large drone landed on the rooftop. The woman quickly folded the mechanical exoskeleton back into a box made of unknown material, then carried the box and placed it on Li Yang's drone, tied it securely with ropes, and respectfully stepped aside.

"Wait here. I will bring your food over later."

With the exoskeleton armor loaded onto the drone, Li Yang immediately controlled the drone to take off. At the same time, he spoke to the first communication drone, and also activated the drone's automatic hover, leaving it there. He then controlled the large drone to fly back to his residence.

On the rooftop, the woman looked at the departing drone and hesitated to speak, but after looking at the slave collar on the man's neck beside her, she gritted her teeth and stood silently aside. The man also watched the drone leave nervously.

They both knew that their lives at this moment depended entirely on the whim of the adult who had taken the exoskeleton armor. Whether it was a thought of playing with them or not keeping his word, they would both die there.

"Phew, I'll repair your armor first."

Chang Yanyan, the woman, let out a long breath to relieve the pressure in her heart. She walked to the large box she had brought the first time, took out various tools of different sizes, and began repairing the damaged exoskeleton on the man.

"The strength of these First-Level Genetic Evolvers is truly powerful. Even with the exoskeleton, I couldn't resist at all."

Yu Dong exhaled and spoke to the woman with a forced smile, revealing his various injuries. Seeing this, the woman first took out medical supplies to simply treat his external wounds before starting to repair his damaged exoskeleton.

"Buzz buzz buzz..."

The sound of wings vibrating the air buzzed. In the empty stairwell, the pursuing zombies were killed one by one by crossbow bolts. The zombies in one building were killed one by one by Li Yang while the large drone waited, and the stairwell finally became unobstructed.

Following that, the drone entered, carrying the 200kg exoskeleton all the way back outside the back door of the gold store, where it was disassembled by Li Yang, his face full of smiles.

He opened the box and took out the user manual inside. With both pictures and text, it clearly explained how to start it, how to use it, what precautions to take, how it was made, and how to repair damaged parts.

——The female slave had fully printed out everything she knew about this exoskeleton.

After reading it and experimenting a few times, Li Yang carried the exoskeleton armor into the gold store and activated it. It instantly transformed into a two-meter-three-tall skeleton. Li Yang then walked into the middle of the skeleton and activated the self-adaptive function. The next moment, the exoskeleton automatically tightened around his body. Li Yang instantly became a man wearing a skeleton-like armor.

He casually threw a punch.

Boom...

A terrifying gust of wind from the punch swept up a pile of paper on the ground.