Resurrection Empire-Chapter 1051 - 410: One Step at a Time (3)

Unfortunately, time was too short. He didn't even have time to complete reliability verification before heading out in a hurry.

Ju Qingmeng raised objections, but Ren Zhong refused them.

Three more hours passed, and Ren Zhong appeared in front of the white sphere once again.

Along the way, Ren Zhong activated the backup systems, trying small maneuvers in the relatively cramped seating space, such as raising his arms, lifting his legs, and bending over.

Supported by automotive-grade silicon chips, he managed to complete these small-range movements, although the delay was a bit more significant, but at least he could move.

The shuttle continued to advance slowly.

This time, he didn't let Hua Yuelan attempt penetration attacks. Instead, relying on his memory, he mapped the exact position of the white sphere using brainwave input.

As before, when the distance between him and the white sphere closed to a kilometer, the enormous object suddenly appeared before him again.

Ren Zhong's head slightly sank once more.

Before fully regaining clarity, he had already issued a displacement command to the shuttle.

The shuttle began to move sideways upward.

Once he fully came to, he checked the self-test reports of the shuttle and the Red Blade Armor.

Well, the shuttle can still move, but the information transmission speed has greatly slowed, and the engine part is overly exposed with max power locked, resulting in slower acceleration, making it seem rather sluggish.

The Red Blade Armor's situation was similar, mobile but with significantly reduced performance.

This indicated that the interference-resistant shield armor, enhanced by Qian Wangshen, was somewhat effective, albeit not ideal.

Ren Zhong stared at the circular hole rapidly turning towards him, mentally calculating and realizing that relying solely on the shuttle wouldn't suffice to evade it.

The next second, he did two things simultaneously.

First, activate the backup system of the Red Blade Armor.

Second, activate the emergency ejection device of the shuttle.

With a bang, the shuttle's head canopy opened, ejecting Ren Zhong in his Red Blade Armor along with the seat beneath him out of the shuttle.

The next moment, an energy beam shot out from the circular hole, accurately hitting the shuttle and vaporizing it into basic particles on the spot.

Ren Zhong looked down, speechless, staring at what was left of his halved legs.

The parts below the knees were already gone.

He had escaped, but not entirely.

After departing from the interference-resistant layer of the shuttle, the original intelligent chip within the Red Blade Armor immediately failed, while the backup system cooperated with sensors to take over control.

The Red Blade Armor had its built-in neural blocking potion, which, upon identifying his leg injuries, automatically injected the potion after a brief delay, severing his sensation in his legs.

Ren Zhong only felt about three seconds of acute pain before clarity returned.

He was somewhat suffocating, with the air inside the armor's sealing layer largely depleted.

Fortunately, the alien ore alloy had adaptive deformation capabilities, gradually contracting to prevent air leakage before reinjecting more air.

The next second, the circular hole on the white sphere began to shift again in a small range, seemingly realigning its aim.

The backup system was primarily mechanically controlled, and Ren Zhong's hands twisted the levers in his palms as if operating an excavator.

With a 20-millisecond delay, the Red Blade Armor first infused Deep Sea Gel inside, then fully powered up the engines at the legs and waist, starting to expel external media, propelling Ren Zhong swiftly toward the front-left, once again evading the energy beam attack.

The distance between Ren Zhong and the white sphere closed to 800 meters.

This was a small step for him, a giant leap for civilization.

However, he wasn't proud or complacent.

Gazing intently forward, Ren Zhong saw a second circular hole appear on the surface of the white sphere, with a metal gun barrel emerging.

A gun barrel also poked out from the previous circular hole.

From now on, the white sphere changed attack mode; he would face crossfire.

Ren Zhong had to timely adjust his course, starting to draw erratic curves in the air while trying to dodge and close the distance simultaneously.

Several seconds passed, a third circular hole opened, and the firepower became increasingly dense as a web began to weave.

When Ren Zhong advanced to just 500 meters from the white sphere, countless circular holes began to appear, revealing the vertical launchers for Tracking Missiles.

Finally, just as a three-meter-high square hole barely appeared on the white sphere's surface and an operational unit Ren Zhong couldn't yet discern was about to launch, he was hit by an energy beam.

He didn't make a mistake; the issue lay with the equipment.

With the parts below the calves prematurely destroyed, he lost the two calf engines and the four small foot engines before even beginning the advance. To maintain maneuverability, he placed too much strain on the upper body engines.

After several dozen seconds of high-intensity operation, some chips in the backup system overheated and degraded in performance, causing substantial control lag. His path became predictable, leading to him being anticipated and struck.

Before dying, Ren Zhong began summarizing in advance.

The shuttle's radiation-resistant layer needed reinforcing, the pressure of the escape ejector seat's blast airbags needed increasing, and the Red Blade Armor's backup chips required better heat dissipation.

Moreover, since the opponent had small combat units, he should have brought two more blades.

In the post-mortem "God's Eye View," Ren Zhong silently reflected, feeling that he had done okay; progress wasn't inferior to when he walked out of the dense forest initially.