Zhang Tianyuan walked out of the office.
General Pentecost stood alone in the outer corridor, his back to the door, looking at the steel landscape of the base, a handkerchief in his hand.
"I think your conversation has a good ending?" He turned around, casually tucking the blood-stained handkerchief back into his breast pocket.
Zhang Tianyuan nodded. "As you wish, your Plan to Nuke the Wormhole should proceed more smoothly than expected."
Seeing that he couldn't understand Chinese very well without a translator, Zhang Tianyuan casually handed him an AI simultaneous interpretation headset from the Wandering Spacetime, which was even an offline version.
Pentecost put it on, and upon hearing the automatic translation coming from inside, he raised an eyebrow in surprise. "If I had received this earlier, our conversation could have been kept more confidential."
Without asking further about the content of the conversation, he said, "Since the conversation went smoothly, let's go eat now. The food has been quite good since we moved here."
"You know, back when I was at the Alaska base, I only ate fried fish and potatoes every day. And before that, I was born in England..."
Seeing Pentecost shaking his head as if the past was too painful to recall, Zhang Tianyuan couldn't help but smile as well, without asking if he would miss his meal if the conversation didn't go well.
They found Mie Juan and her group, and together they went into the cafeteria.
They became the center of attention the moment they entered.
Zhang Tianyuan and Mie Juan were alright, but the exoskeleton soldiers in the Wandering Spacetime were really out of place with the style of this world.
Watching them walk through the middle of the cafeteria.
Everyone consciously lowered their voices, while secretly watching them with curiosity.
Some people were whispering about how effective the exoskeleton armor would be, or whether it might be a suit for operating some kind of mecha.
The Wei Brothers also secretly kept their eyes fixed on them.
The second brother, Wei Jin, nudged the third brother, who was stuffing something into his mouth, and whispered, "Look, that was the big shot just now."
The eldest brother Wei Chang, glared at him, signaling him to watch his words.
When Tendo Choi saw Zhang Tianyuan sit down in the cafeteria, he took the initiative to bring over a plate of sumptuous food, and then looked at them with the same curiosity.
Despite having just translated for Pentecost, he still didn't know the identities of Zhang Tianyuan and his group.
Pentecost made no attempt to explain, quietly continuing to eat his food.
Zhang Tianyuan ate while keeping an eye on the racial composition of the people in the cafeteria.
The other bases haven't been merged yet, so apart from people like Old Pan who were parachuted in, most of the people in the base are locals, and they speak a mix of Cantonese and Mandarin.
As Pentecost ate, he began to look around with a strange expression.
Because the interpreter headset Zhang Tianyuan gave him was constantly translating the collected audio into English.
" Old Pan must have had some good luck today. He was all gloomy before, but this afternoon he started smiling. My god, that scared me!"
"You know what, his face used to be so ugly he could have been a door god..."
When they went to return the tableware after finishing their meal, Old Pan finally couldn't hold back any longer. He looked at the two locals next to him who were speaking Cantonese and asked in a broken voice, "' Old Pan ' was referring to me, wasn't it?"
"..."
As it turns out, the AI technology used in the Wandering Spacetime is quite powerful.
The two staff members who awkwardly dug the villa out with their toes are proof of this.
Next, while there's still no...
During the break, Zhang Tianyuan followed Old Pan to the maintenance bay of the Gipsy Danger.
" Gipsy Danger, one of the most outstanding Jaegers of the third generation. I regretted sending it to the Jaeger graveyard, so I dragged it back and decided to modify it."
"It will be the fourth mech to help us destroy the wormhole..."
Stepping onto the mobile aerial platform specifically built for repairing mechs, Zhang Tianyuan came into close contact with this enormous robot for the first time.
"It's very moving."
The maintenance bay is so large that no single light can fully illuminate it, so the surrounding lighting is always a mix of bright and dim, in addition to the flickering light from the welding process.
The imposing mechs are like armored giants coexisting in light and darkness.
"This guy is way too damn big..."
Mie Juan, or rather the members of the Mutual Aid Society at the scene, saw this mecha, their eyes lit up.
During the day, everyone's attention was focused on the monster, and they hardly noticed the Crimson Typhoon behind it. This was their first real encounter with the mech.
"Sir?" A woman walked over.
Zhang Tianyuan turned around, Old Pan took the documents from the woman, introducing her as he did so. " Mako Mori, my adopted daughter, an excellent mecha technician, is currently in charge of the maintenance and upgrade of this mecha."
The two shook hands briefly.
"Is he a candidate for driver?" Mako Mori suddenly asked Old Pan.
Bringing strangers to see this unfinished mecha at this time seems to have no other explanation than that of a pilot candidate.
Before Zhang Tianyuan could deny it himself, Old Pan spoke up, "No, sir, you know who I have in mind."
Mako Mori frowned. "I don't think that person is the best choice."
The two were referring to the protagonist, Raleigh, the former driver of the Gipsy Danger.
"But he's the person who knows this mech best, and he has enough experience. We don't need the most skilled pilot, just someone who can complete our mission..."
Old Pan answered quickly, making some notes on the document and handing it back to Mako Mori.
However, she didn't give up. "I believe that without the strongest pilot, the mission cannot be completed."
Zhang Tianyuan, who was standing to the side, suddenly asked, "Have you conducted any research on unmanned mechs yet?"
"Drone Armor?"
"You mean a mecha that can be remotely controlled wirelessly?" Zhang Tianyuan knew from the tone of the question that they definitely didn't have research in this area. "What about small, single-person mechas?"
"After dealing with the monsters, we might need some small mechs."
He was thinking of the monsters in the game world that could drop blueprints.
Deploying some small mechs to hunt level 3 and 4 monsters for blueprints is a sure-fire way to make money.
However, Mako Mori shook her head. "No, PPDC has never conducted similar research."
"Then you'd better change your research direction; that might save you your funding."
Mako Mori looked puzzled, but Old Pan, though unsure of what was going on, agreed earnestly.
"Who is it?" Mako Mori whispered to her adoptive father.
"This is a very important guest. I'll explain everything to you in detail tomorrow."
After the tour, Zhang Tianyuan politely declined the room arranged by Old Pan, and instead led Mie Juan and the others back to the timeline of "2012," where the Wandering Earth...
The empty-handed soldiers were also sent back.
People from both timelines recorded the situation in the Pacific Rim.
Only Tong Wenshi from the Legend Spacetime was the most Zen-like.
He knew that as long as he firmly supported Zhang Tianyuan, there was no need for him to get involved in these matters for the time being.
On the other side...
Not long after Old Pan returned to his office, he received a call from Ning Jihua, who had taken some time out of his busy schedule.
Are you coming to visit tomorrow?
"Okay, I understand."
"May I ask about Mr. Zhang and his companions' specific identities?"
Old Pan tentatively asked Ning Jihua on the other end of the phone.
When he asked this question, he would always recall the Spacetime Tunnel that Zhang Tianyuan and the others had opened when they left.
He almost wanted to follow them inside to see what the other side looked like.
Ning Jihua did not hide anything, but instead relayed Zhang Tianyuan's identity to Old Pan.
"It's not entirely certain whether what they're saying is true or false, but there's a certain possibility..."
Suddenly, Old Pan interrupted Ning Jihua, a rare occurrence for him. "I just saw with my own eyes that they left our spacetime through a wormhole."
"That wormhole was very dark and seemed to have no thickness; it couldn't be seen from the side. It opened without any sound, and they disappeared immediately after passing through it. I can send you the surveillance footage..."
Witnessing all of this firsthand actually made Old Pan somewhat uneasy.
Because Zhang Tianyuan and his team's wormhole technology was clearly several levels above that of the monsters.
He had been closely following Zhang Tianyuan and his group, which could be considered a form of "surveillance."
Upon hearing these descriptions, Ning Jihua immediately fell silent.
But instead of being surprised, he was delighted; his eyes even seemed to be shining.
"This is good news; it means our world is poised for even greater development!"
Ning Jihua has always been confident in the face of the unknown.
Old Pan, who always wears a cold expression and whose worries are written all over his face, is on a completely different level from him.
Old Pan spent a sleepless night tossing and turning, his white eyes remaining open in the dark room.
the next day.
Both Zhang Tianyuan's and Ning Jihua's groups arrived at the Shatterdome Base at the agreed time.
Ning Jihua's hair looked somewhat gray, but his face didn't look old at all; he had some premature gray hair and looked quite energetic.
Ning Jihua was also sizing up Zhang Tianyuan.
In his view, the young man was unremarkable, making it hard to imagine how he opened the wormhole.
Old Pan gathered the key personnel from the Shatterdome Base in the conference room.
The pilot of the Crimson Typhoon, Mako Mori, Hermann and Newton, and Tendo Choi were all present.
As soon as they entered, they sensed the difference in the atmosphere.
With a brief reminder beforehand, even Newton, the most impulsive person, dared not jump.
The pressure is a bit high.
I can't jump anymore.
Mako Mori still couldn't figure out who Zhang Tianyuan and his group were.
Because her adoptive father didn't have time to explain it to her.
"Everyone has worked hard," Ning Jihua spoke first. "We've gathered everyone here today to discuss the issue of Nuke the Wormhole."
"Our previous Plan to Nuke the Wormhole was undeniably somewhat crude, and the possibility of failure was relatively high."
"Perfect timing. President Zhang is quite knowledgeable about wormholes, so I specifically asked him to add some details to the plan..."
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The first person to raise a question mark was Hermann, who had the best understanding of wormhole structures at the scene.