Resurrection Empire-Chapter 1054 - 411: Water Drops Wear Through Stone

According to the armor's self-check system, despite having been fitted with a thicker interference-resistance layer, the reliability of the original AI control system inside the Red Blade Armor has still dropped to an unbearable level after direct exposure to the space environment.

At this moment, the barrel has extended from the circular hole that missed its target with two consecutive shots earlier, and it is continually adjusting its angle for aim and lock.

As two energy beams swept across, Ren Zhong's Red Blade Armor completed a third disassembly, throwing away the integrated AI control system stored in a box, using the recoil of the discarded material to change direction once again.

Simultaneously, the backup system, which had preemptively taken control, activated the nineteen remaining functional medium engines on the Red Blade Armor.

This change in direction helped Ren Zhong dodge the crossfire from the white sphere.

Ren Zhong squinted slightly, his mind racing with flashes of reinforcement training from the past two days. He simultaneously input these into his pre-programmed instructions, beginning to advance using seemingly random but actually prescriptively defined zigzag maneuvers.

He continuously evaded the growing web of crossfire from the energy cannons extending from more circular holes, using the heat decoys at the back of his armor to mislead tracking missiles.

After a series of dazzling operations, Ren Zhong finally closed in to just a hundred meters away from the white sphere's surface.

But he stopped advancing further, maintaining relative distance while executing maneuvering motions within a narrow flat area.

A five-meter-tall humanoid combat unit quietly hovered about fifty meters in front of Ren Zhong.

Ren Zhong tentatively fired a thumb missile ahead. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

The small thumb missile did not hit the humanoid combat unit but collided with a bubble-like film along the way and was prematurely detonated.

Afterward, Ren Zhong fired an energy gun shot from his fingers.

The killing beam was easily intercepted by the film, merely stirring a ripple that spread in all directions.

Ren Zhong was not surprised by this.

He had braked preemptively because his combat intuition told him there was danger ahead.

Indeed, the film, which appeared fragile, was actually a powerful active protective force field.

At this moment, only the backup system chip inside the Red Blade Armor was functional, and its computing power was inadequate. It was difficult to precisely analyze the specific parameters and energy distribution mechanism of the force field based on feedback data from two bombardments alone.

Ren Zhong could only conclude from experience that the overall performance of this membrane shield far surpassed all military equipment he had seen on Source Star.

It is undoubtedly like the Screw Rock Excavator from back then, an integrated system package entirely imported from interstellar trade.

If he does not figure out the characteristics of the membrane shield, he is destined to return empty-handed today.

No wonder the Frozen Elder dared to sleep inside the white sphere continuously.

With the protection of this wall of lament, and holding the once-magic artifact — "Net", the old popsicles were not afraid of betrayal and rebellion at all.

Ren Zhong took a deep breath, began to expand the range of his planar maneuvers, and continued firing the stored ammunition and reserve energy inside the armor in solid and energy weapon forms, shaking the film ceaselessly, like fireworks on New Year's.

The spectrometer, metal analyzer, electromagnetic wave analyzer, and other instruments inside Ren Zhong's Red Blade Armor were also running at full power, striving to decipher the energy characteristics of the film.

He planned to slowly wear down the film using the method of water drops penetrating stone.

Finally, the humanoid combat unit inside seemed to receive new instructions and started to move.

It began flying forward, effortlessly crossing through the film like a crocodile surfacing from water.

Then, without any visible propulsion behind it, it suddenly accelerated, appearing in front of Ren Zhong.

Ren Zhong speculated that the faceless robot must have been fitted with a high-performance variable-direction gravity traction device internally.

It relied on the massive white sphere and the existent gravitational network within the Source Star System, ultimately obtaining almost unbeatable super maneuverability when near the white sphere.

As the distance closed, Ren Zhong finally saw the combat unit clearly.

In some sense, this was an old acquaintance of his.

It was the liquid metal faceless robot commonly found in many county-level professionals' training grounds.

However, its metallic sheen was significantly different from the ordinary training type faceless robots, and it was larger in size, with bizarreily exceptional maneuverability.

As the faceless robot approached, the previous energy cannon and tracking missile attacks ceased.

Without any greetings or taunts, the two sides immediately engaged in combat.

Ren Zhong drew his double sabers, frantically slashing and parrying.

The faceless robot frantically changed its form, sometimes morphing into a giant blade, sometimes transforming into an open silver hunting net, sometimes becoming a silver spear, and occasionally exploding into countless steel beads, creating a small cyclone sweeping towards him.

Ren Zhong had injected the life-or-death potion provided by Sun Miao, elevating his physical strength and brain response speed to several times his normal state, but the backup silicon chip system's delay persisted, more severe than when he used amplifiers.

Three minutes later, the Red Blade Armor was broken in half.

Ren Zhong was defeated.

And killed.

But just before dying, Ren Zhong, forgetting the pain, kept his gaze on the left side of the tactical helmet panel.

There were some parameters of the liquid faceless robot's body composition that the spectrometer had just read.

During these three minutes, although he was at a disadvantage the entire time, he luckily managed to hit the opponent once, blasting a small dent in its body and capturing a mung bean-sized splash of liquid metal, which he placed in the spectrometer for analysis.

Of course, it was indeed this piece of liquid metal that ultimately led to Ren Zhong's defeat. It suddenly went berserk, shattering the information transmission cables of the Red Blade Armor from within.

With gains must come losses.

Utilizing the God's Eye View from after his death, Ren Zhong continued observing, memorizing a good number of parameters the spectrometer was consistently calculating.

He had gone a step further.