Strange Cards

Chapter 47 You really are a genius

After taking a sip of coffee, Guan Yun became increasingly angry. He then put the coffee cup aside and slammed his fist on the table in front of him.

"It's all because of those old geezers up there. I have to go through all sorts of approvals just to restart a project."

"Yesterday they kept me up until after 3 a.m. After those old guys went to sleep, they sent their juniors to keep me up."

"I was so angry that I went straight to the boss's room and found the Hunter God Token from the Southern Hunter Base. Those guys who were so tough before, like they had steel plates embedded in their backs, instantly cowered."

"I hurriedly woke up those old guys, and after seeing the sign, they knew I was serious. In less than 15 minutes, they had gone through all the so-called procedures."

"Your evolution device is still under design, but if you fight a few more battles, you might be able to collect all the data and start manufacturing it."

"I remember being in a gravity chamber too, doesn't that count as data?"

Guan Yun shook his head and said.

"The data inside is all under control, so there's no way of knowing whether your evolutionary device can withstand the burst of power you unleash on the spot."

"Like this time you used the second strange card, which you wouldn't use during gravity chamber training, so this is a very important piece of data."

"Alright, let's talk about the project review now."

Guan Yun's holographic projection coughed lightly twice, then brought up several design drawings.

"This project is called Project Godhunter, and it is the ultimate weapon created to resist the strange tide."

"Each wave of strange events basically requires all the hunters to mobilize, so I, from the Southern Base, took the lead and, together with several other major bases and some people from the Central Base, established this plan."

"The design of the four Hunter God mechs has been completed, and the weapon system and power transmission system have also been manufactured."

"However, there is also a single-soldier Hunter mech, which is for arming the military to resist the ghost tide."

"The main problem is that there are too few hunters, and even fewer hunters who can fight."

"This series of mechs has received unanimous approval, but its design has been delayed for a long time."

Shi Yu pointed to a hologram and said, "I'll show you a design on it."

"Neural sensor connectivity, multi-driver operation?"

"Won't this lead to the classic problem of the left and right hemispheres of the brain working in tandem?"

"And what if a breakdown occurs and one of the drivers dies?"

Guan Yun coughed once.

"We also considered this issue, but we abandoned the idea of ​​single-player control in the subsequent hundred simulations."

"Because the human brain cannot process this level of terrifying information."

"The human brain weighs only 1400 grams, and even the brain of the top genius Einstein weighed only a little over 1200 grams."

"If one were to attempt single-person driving, the human brain would likely experience mental overload, potentially leading to irreversible consequences, which is why I gave up."

"Neural sensory connections can directly reach every corner of the Hunter God mech, and if the two hemispheres are divided into left and right hemispheres to process the data, then this thing that is so many times larger than itself can be controlled."

"It's possible that someone's brain processing power is sufficient to pilot a mech alone, but it should be very rare, if not impossible."

"We've gone off on a tangent. We should be talking about basic mechs."

"Because of their high individual flexibility, basic mechs may even have the potential for customization."

"However, modifications are impossible; only minor alterations on a small scale are permitted."

"The main challenge is with the weapon systems themselves."

Guan Yun sighed and then pulled up the basic mecha design blueprints.

"It's impossible to directly convert them into heavily armed troops, otherwise their flexibility would be greatly reduced."

"If it's too light, its defensive capabilities will be reduced, and even its ability to withstand pressure during normal flight may become a problem."

"But the balanced type doesn't excel in anything; it's purely there to be an NPC."

Shigure thought for a moment, then a virtual screen appeared on which he searched for several classic battle scenes from anime.

Shigure brought out all the weapons used by the main characters.

"I think these might be good sources of inspiration."

Guan Yun looked at the young man with red eyes on the virtual screen, dressed in a robe with auspicious clouds, and at the sword filled with lightning.

"you mean?"

Shiyu clicked on the screen, and instantly the sound of countless birds chirping rang out.

Bai Yu, lying on my lap, grunted twice in dissatisfaction, and her two cat ears drooped down.

"You mean you want to create it based on the abilities from those anime?"

"No, no, no, that would infringe on copyright."

Shigure brought up another screen and pointed to the shattered sword above.

"Using them as prototypes and then replicating them with the Hunter's technology, I think it would be easy for the Hunter to replicate a demonic sword that has been shattered into a thousand pieces."

Guan Yun swallowed hard and pointed to a person in one of the images whose eyes had one onion-like eye and the other had conjunctivitis.

"That ability to warp space is hard to replicate..."

"I imagine the hunters possess spatial technology, right?"

Upon hearing this, Guan Yun instantly tensed up, and his voice turned icy as he spoke.

How did you find out about this?

Shigure then gently blew out a breath and said.

"I just found out."

After thinking for a while, Guan Yun realized that he had fallen into Shi Yu's trap, and said with regret.

"Damn it, I didn't expect you to get it out of me."

Guan Yun nodded helplessly and said.

"Indeed, the Hunters do possess some space technology."

"But that's something I figured out; I just haven't released it yet."

Why?

Shiyu took a glass of wheat juice from the service robot next to her and swallowed the bitter yet bubbly wheat juice.

"Because of human nature."

Guan Yun also took a sip of tea and said calmly.

"Because what we researchers least trust is the word 'human nature'."

Guan Yunxu tapped the holographic screen a few times, pointing to the island destroyed by the atomic bomb.

"At the time, the researchers studying nuclear weapons had no idea that what they were researching would become the key to opening Pandora's box."

"After experiencing the atomic bombings of Fat Man and Little Boy, most of the first generation of nuclear researchers spent their lives in melancholy."

"That's why hunters are extra wary of the release of technology. Every time a hunter releases technology, we have at least four ways to deal with it, as well as four versions of things that go beyond the released technology."

"Power breeds greed and makes people increasingly lose sight of themselves."

"We cannot hand over this horror to any individual, not even a nation."