Compared with those armored vehicles, the Dunecrawler was undoubtedly something Iax found rather strange. Not because of its crude design or flaws, but because of the semi-intelligent module installed inside it.
Thud!
The sudden dull impact drew everyone's attention.
A Dunecrawler's hull had been separated from its four-legged platform.
The upper hull had been set upside down on the ground like an overturned teapot.
A bewildered Skitarii soldier stood beside it. He was the walker's gunner.
As for the driver, he had no way of getting out on his own.
Iax, however, moved quickly.
A mechanical arm thrust precisely into the hull, then extracted the entire amniotic tank through the bottom and set it aside.
Inside the tank was a living organism whose limbs had been removed, with numerous cables connected to his body.
He was a Skitarii Vanguard, the walker's driver.
He effectively served as the walker's biological wetware.
Iax had no intention of killing him. After disconnecting a few cables, Iax printed a simple circulation pump using some spare parts, connected it to the amniotic tank, and hooked up the miniature nuclear fusion generator from inside the hull.
The Skitarii submerged in the amniotic tank had no idea what had happened.
His limbs had been removed to reduce his volume, and his biological eyes had been taken out to prevent visual discrepancies.
Various implants fed every piece of information from the walker into his brain, but at that moment, he had lost all perception.
The walker's optical components were his eyes, and its various scanners and sensors were his senses.
The Skitarii Vanguard extracted from the hull tried to struggle in terror. After all, not everyone could endure the horror of being deprived of all five senses as Lucius could.
Yet without limbs, and with various mechanical structures