Chapter 546: Lets Get It Big! (2/2)
”All of you have been admitted. We'll meet here at 6 a.m. tomorrow. Latecomers would not be entertained. Dismiss.”
”What?”
”What did the master say?”
People were dumbfounded as rustles were perceived at the crowd. ”Am I drunk? Or is the master drunk? Or is everybody drunk?”
”The master orders dismissal! So move now!” Instructor Liao raised his voice impatiently upon seeing rustling crowd. ”You have 10 minutes! Anyone who stays after that would be immediately executed!”
And there was nobody at the last syllable uttered, well, except the Shu sisters.
”Knock them out,” said Ye Chong as he pointed at them.
”Yes sir!” Instructor Liao sauntered to the sisters to deliver a surprising blow at their necks. They blacked out before they realized. ”Gui Gui!” Instructor Liao did not even bother to take a look at those beauties as he shouted his soldier. Gui Gui had a pale face of a ghost, as if albino that even her fingers were pale as snow. It was quite a contrast to those well-tanned men in the armor. Her eyes were cold as ice, her actions were smooth as the glaze, which appeared rather threatening to the soldiers.
”Get these girls to your camp. Anyone who dares to taste them would be sliced!” Instructor Liao shouted.
Gui Gui responded with a formal bow, ”Yes sir.” She sauntered to the fainted sisters and lifted them to her shoulders and retreated to her former position in the formation after all.
Gui Gui's existence was an eye-opener to Ye Chong. He had raised his own army before so he knew how an army worked. It was rare to see a female blending so well in the army especially when it consisted a majority of males. The discipline was there and there was unity among them. One could clearly see the standard of this army.
So the next problem would be a proper training ground that could accommodate a crowd of 20,000. However, it was not that difficult to solve.
That aside, there had not been much progress in his research. Though he did achieve something, including the instance where he finally crafted a few processors from scratches, despite being pretty substandard for its low level of processing ability according to the record in the microchips. Rather useless if one would say. It was not difficult to craft yet it was made out of Ye Chong's blood and sweat and that was under the assistance of those fancy stuffs like the organic cellular unit of these processing units he scavenged from Spectre. It might take him centuries before he made one out if without these stuffs.
The processors he made might not be powerful but he found somewhere to use them.
Ye Chong utilized the materials available and crafted simple mechs based on the design of a few engineering units. He attached the processors to them and made them into servant units. They served different functions so they had different designs. They lacked intelligence so they served one single function each but these were more than enough! They would help the mundane work!
The layout of his manor had already been plotted under the assistance of his detection system. Chen the processor had provided him the optimal proposal for the construction, all he had to do was to insert these partitioned tasks to each servant units, then magic would happen.
That sounded like a breakthrough by Master Ye but he never had the chance to test these units and he was given this major project to handle. So he only could use these units right away, to build a giant training dojo that could accommodate the large crowd. Well it was not an exquisitely designed dojo to begin with. So it was not entirely unmanageable. If he had those standard engineering units he could have finished the construction in 30 minutes.
But he only had these simple bots.
Instructor Liao was setting up the base camp. He and his army did not need help from Master Ye. Setting up camp was the bread and butter for military.
The night came slowly as the soldiers chatted happily round the campfire. It was a joyful trip with such a simple mission, especially when their routine consisted of march-till-fall activities back in the training camp.
Gui Gui sat at one spot silently. Her pale face convinced people they were as if sitting by her ghastly flame. Nobody had the courage to sit next to her. She was the only female in the army and people feared her, not even Instructor Liao would get closer to her. The sisters remained unconscious as placed at the wilted patch of grass nearby.
Instructor Liao gave a fierce bite at his drumstick and he closed his eyes. A strong wave of psychokinetic spread to the surrounding, reaching everybody who zipped their mouth all of sudden and began meditating nearby.
”Listen up punks! If any of you ever fall asleep meditating tonight, I'll give him a taste of my personal training the morning after!”said Instructor Liao fiercely. ”Close your eyes! In silence! Meditate. Nobody open their eyes till informed!”
”F*cking hell, you incapable kiddos and your lack of training just pisses me off every time.” Instructor Liao threw his anger as he brandished the bitten drumstick which was then tossed into his huge mouth to be chomped, along with the bone, into a million pieces while he strolled out of the camp.
Gui Gui, who seemed to sense something, got up and tailed after.
Instructor Liao gave her a nod upon seeing her. They headed to the southwest corner of the manor agilely like beasts on a runaway. Such speed from capable shooters.
At one bush on the slope, they peeked something shocking.
There were a handful of strange things gathering up into a team.
The leader seemed to be a spider-like creature, with 8 long feet and a flat broad cavity. It was a machine, with a pronounced height about 5 meters, a breadth about 10 meters. It looked terrifying.
”What the hell are those things?” Instructor Liao could not help but to inhale as he trembled a bit.
Gui Gui's eyes enlarged for a brief moment and she responded softly, ”Looks like a new kind of machine to me.”
And out of the blue, the spider reached its blade-like cavity to the ground. Before Instructor Liao and Gui Gui said something, glaring lights came from the blade and peeled the ground off!
Both of them were shocked to complete silence and their eyes enlarged like saucers.
The beeping continued as the spider creature reached its beam of light across.
A floating truck equipped with shovel were following after, moving those rocks sliced off the ground, further polishing the rocks underground. In the end a rocky training dojo could be identified. The process went on as the beam shifted to the edges and shaped the dojo into square.
Then there was a 4-legged machine about half a meter tall coming into the scene with its square box on its back, with a broad beam discharging from below which left a row of perfectly circular dent on the ground. It looked like a ... mini pile driver?
The two soldiers continued observing, only to see more and more strange machines joining the construction. They were small and had bizarre designs yet somehow the two soldiers could perceive the functions at one glance.
But well, what the heck? Was this construction going a bit too fast?
Instructor Liao glanced at his clock. What? It had only been an hour and there was a dojo coming out of nowhere? That looked more like a paranormal activity to both of them by then.
”Holy crap. Those are pretty good stuffs!” said Instructor Liao, rubbing his palm eagerly with his eyes peering at that spider machine. Who cares if it sliced the ground well? It would be the best machine for slicing people! Instructor Liao might be from the highly regarded royal guards but he had never laid his hands on such an interesting machine before.
So many stuffs to get! Especially that strange liquid! Instructor Liao could sense the surface of the rocks growing stronger by times! The liquid could be the key to an unbeatable stronghold! Simply spray them at the walls then their stronghold would not even bulge under the deadliest shot! Talk about a great defense!
”Who was that?” asked Ye Chong as he heard something. He did not notice them before because of the distance and he was concentrating on his work, but it was that loud voice of Instructor Liao that alerted him.
”Hah! It's us, Master Ye.” Instructor Liao was not feeling shy at all, as he greeted Ye Chong normally. Gui Gui pondered awhile before she followed the instructor.
Ye Chong took a look at both of them who nodded at him and he got back to his work. The dojo had just been coated with a layer of strengthening reagent. It was not completed yet. It still needed another reagent or the pillars would break because of the temperature change.
The miniature mobile sprinkler was looking like a floating cocoon in the air as Ye Chong caught it and began pouring in a pale greenish liquid.
”Master Ye, what is this? What does it do?” asked Instructor Liao interestingly, approaching Ye Chong.
”These are strengthening reagents,” replied Ye Chong as he poured the fluid. ”It further strengthens the structure of a material specifically, unlike the normal reagents.”
”Oh...” Instructor Liao nodded although he wasn't sure if he understood. ”That sounds great! Can it strengthen the structure of a human body too?”
Ye Chong sealed the lid tight and sent the sprinkler off to the training ground.
”Back off,” instructed Ye Chong.
”Why?”
”It's highly toxic.”
Instructor Liao was smiling as the corners of his lips shook, while Gui Gui was already nowhere to be seen nearby...