Nine seconds after the application was uploaded, Great Han officially approved it, as fast as Lin Cuo had been waiting for the E. U. to jump in first.
On the central stage, after Regent saw the name of the challenger, instead of showing any attention to Andrei, he showed an extremely regretful expression to the Camera around the world.
"The first challenger is from E. U.. It's great. I was worried that they would set up a committee first to study who should fill out the challenge application."
There was a burst of unsuppressible curses in the E. U. representative seat. Leila couldn't help but close his eyes. Sure enough, he should have asked the diplomats to prepare a standard text specifically to deal with Lin Cuo's public provocation last night.
The screen behind Lin Cuo cut out the information of Kallen and Guren Shen Hu. However, he did not solemnly introduce his champions in the way of a normal event host. Instead, his words became more and more like deliberately belittling.
"Kallen Kouzuki, she has not received regular military education for a long time. She has a bad temper and does not obey the arrangements of the propaganda department. Guren Shen Hu has just replaced Two-Pilot System which has not been fully verified. In short, she is not the official champion."
In Goryeo's viewing hall, Kallen's communication terminal lit up.
"I can hear you!"
"General Kallen, please maintain the demeanor that an officer Area 11 should have during the global live broadcast."
"Just wait for me!"
Lin Cuo immediately turned back to Camera with a solemn expression.
"Everyone has also heard that her fighting will is quite stable."
Kaguya Sumeragi covered the corners of his mouth with a folding fan, while Lelouch glanced at Kallen's heart rate data, which had clearly exceeded the safe range. He knew Lin Cuo's approach very well, so he put Kallen on The highest exposure position, and deliberately lowering external expectations; if Kallen loses, it can be attributed to the immaturity of the new machine and the two-player system. If Kallen wins, all those who despise her will become free material for Lin Cuo to promote the next generation machine.
Lin Cuo also knows very well that it is impossible for Kallen to really rush to the central stage to beat him during the global live broadcast. She is tired of explaining the so-called mistress rumors.
Initially, Kallen would catch everyone spreading rumors and force them to admit face to face that Guren Shen Hu and the three hundred and sixty Gao Hai came from military capabilities. Later, she found that the more seriously she explained, the more others felt that there must be something inside. If she was angry, she would be written as being arrogant, and if she ignored it, it would be interpreted as acquiescence.
Now, if someone asks again, she just punches them first and makes them think about whether to continue asking.
However, Britannia's business channel did initially interpret this defense arrangement as Lin Cuo's public promotion of his personal favorite.
The imperial nobles do not know the complete records of Operation White Chrysanthemum. In their view, the explanation for the fact that a Area 11 woman with no prominent military experience suddenly obtained the military rank of Eighth Generation Experimental Knightmare, 360 mass-produced KMFs and General of the Central Army is so obvious that no evidence is needed.
Until the general commentator of the conference Milly·Ashford began to read the public file of Driver.
Milly is wearing the dark blue hosting uniform of the conference. The smile, pause and Camera on her face look as natural as if she originally belonged to the TV station. If the world had not reached this stage, she might enter a broadcasting organization after graduation and become a weather anchor or host of a large program; now, Lin Cuo has just dug this ability out of Student Council in advance.
On the day she accepted the appointment, she took a photo of the event process that was too thick and placed it on the Lin Cuo table.
"General commentator, student self-governance liaison, participant rights coordination, and responsible for handling complaints from aristocratic audiences... Regent, is this what you call trust?"
Lin Cuo only replied two sentences at that time.
"I trust you."
"I also believe in your ability."
Milly The smile that had always been on his face disappeared at this time.
Ashford Family In the past, she needed her to maintain family relationships, need her as an engagement partner, and need her to always behave appropriately in aristocratic social situations, but few people told her so directly: the reason why things were left to her was because she could do it.
She quickly regained control of her expression and put that bit of real touch back into her president-like smile.
"Regent, don't you feel very despicable when you use such words to add more work to others?"
"I'm mean, so it works out well."
Now facing Camera around the world, Milly did not show any personal emotions and only cut the Kallen file to the second page.
"Kallen Kouzuki, Area 11, the imperial school registration name is Kallen·Stadtfeld, the father's line is Holy Britannia Imperium Stadtfeld family, with imperial aristocratic blood, he studied at the Ashford Academy--"
Pendragon's Royal Family broadcast booth suddenly became quiet, and Area 11 Governor-General's Office also became quiet.
Clovis was originally holding a cup of black tea. When he heard the words Stadtfeld, his wrist visibly stopped.
"Bartley! Wait a minute, my head is a little dizzy! Please tell me this is not true!!!"
Bartley next to him lowered his head and quickly retrieved the imperial household registration. Villetta also began to look through the school files. After a few seconds, the two pieces of information appeared on the main screen at the same time.
Kallen·Stadtfeld, a registered member of the imperial aristocratic family, has long been absent from the Ashford Academy classes due to physical weakness; his father belongs to the Area 11 Britannia aristocratic class, and his mother is from Area 11.
There is nothing unusual about the file, which is the most embarrassing part.
She has been in the Area 11 aristocratic school, has been under the rule of Governor-General's Residence, and even publicly uses the surname Britannia.
After Schneizel read the information, his eyes moved from Kallen's student photo to Guren Shen Hu, with a gentle smile still on his lips.
"Brother! It's your Area 11 again. It really makes my brother worried!"
Clovis immediately turned his head.
"Brother Emperor, at least the first two can't be entirely blamed on me!"
Odysseus, however, added seriously for his younger brother, "This time is indeed different. Kallen was originally in your jurisdiction."
On the martial arts field, Iron Man driven by Andrei has entered the starting area.
E. U. Due to the chaotic coup, most of its body data was lost. Great Han's newly established Ordnance Committee is estimated to have a single shot power close to the 105 to 120 mm Tank gun level based on the damage effect of its ammunition, the size of the gun bore and the damage to the target armor.
The arms of Iron Man have been completely transformed into gun mounts. Automatic loading, belt supply, forced cooling and recoil mechanisms occupy the internal space. It can continuously pour out main battle Tank-level armor-piercing firepower at a pace close to that of a machine gun.
This design sacrifices close combat operation and versatility, but piles frontal firepower to a level that is almost unsurpassable by the E. U.'s current mass-produced KMF.
The moment the countdown returned to zero, both arms of the Iron Man's main guns fired at the same time. Huge cannon flames spurted forward, but the chassis' land wheels slid into reverse at the same moment. The entire machine body jerked backwards with the help of recoil. Normally, the Driver's artillery, which needed to be stationary and stable, became the driving force for backward propulsion in his hands.
The first round of six shells directly blocked the front space of Guren Shen Hu.
Kallen did not rush forward immediately. At this time, she was in a driving posture that made her want to kill someone before the race started.
The Bird of Paradise type Two-Person Interface does not put two ordinary seats side by side into the Cockpit. The control suit of the front Driver is directly responsible for data interaction., her body is in a forward leaning posture supported by all four limbs, facing the front of the machine, and the changes in shoulders, waist, legs and spine are all converted into the posture data of Guren by the core; two physical joysticks extend backward from both sides of her lower back.
Lin Cuo, who had just finished broadcasting, sat shamelessly in the upper rear auxiliary seat. His hands were forward holding the two joysticks extending from the waist of Kallen, and he stepped on the Shield, weapon authorization and propulsion auxiliary pedals.
Kallen When he sat in for the first time, he stared at the design drawing for a while, and finally stared at Shu: "Did you two do this on purpose?"
Shu smiled very brightly at that time.
"Oh? My technical route is only responsible for telling the body honestly how to share the center of gravity most easily."
Now that the main gun barrage was approaching, Lin Cuo immediately grasped the joystick.
"There is a window on the left, cut to the left!"
"Right!"
"I said left!"
Guren Shen Hu made an unnecessary swing in a very short moment. Andrei did not miss it. The second round of gunfire immediately pressed towards the predetermined position after the body turned.
Kallen gritted his teeth and directly took back the main posture authority.
"Shut up! Shield is yours, and the flying is mine!"
"I am the co-pilot, not the Shield switch!"
"You may not even be qualified for the Shield switch now!"
Radiation Barrier unfolded in the front. The first shell quickly deflected when it hit the barrier. The second shell was pushed away by the directional Absolute Defense layer. The subsequent projectiles passed by both sides of Guren Shen Hu and exploded a large the Flash on the protective wall of the stadium.
Milly's commentary is still stable, and the speaking speed has not even changed due to the constant quarrels in Cockpit.
"General Andrei is using Iron Man's most representative recoil maneuver to maintain distance through continuous salvos. Guren Shen Hu has publicly withstood the main battle Tank level continuous artillery fire for the first time. Radiation Barrier and the IS directional defense layer are currently operating normally."
"At the same time, Guren Shen Hu's two-person driving interface is undergoing very full practical communication."
Andrei has retreated to the west edge of the field. Iron Man is hitting faster and faster. The recoil force pushes the body to slide along the arc. The two large smoothbore cannons take turns to maintain firepower. Any traditional close combat KMF will find that it is always half a body short of entering the cutting distance.
Kallen did not choose to approach directly. She first let the wing missiles deploy from the left and right sides, forcing Andrei to change its retreat trajectory; then she closed most of Active Radar, leaving only the short-term prediction provided by IS Core.
Lin Cuo is still trying to explain later.
"He'll go right next round--"
"Left."
"The model based on recoil is right."
"I'm talking about his own right!"
"Then you should explain it in advance!"
"Show me the front!!"
Kallen suddenly looked back, and it was this look that finally made her confirm why Lin Cuo missed the fire control prompts twice in a row.
The two-person data mapping will synchronize the front-seat Driver's center of gravity, muscle changes and posture benchmarks to the rear-seat assisted driving vision. According to the design, Lin Cuo should be staring at the overall center of gravity mark; in fact, that mark happened to stop at the most obvious position of her lower back and hips.
And Lin Cuo's gaze trajectory is obviously too honest.
"Sir Regent! If you stare at my attitude data for one more second, I will let you become part of the competition accident first."
"This is what future neural interfaces must refer to--"
"Shut up!"