The Difficulty of Giant Armor

In addition to patrolling and learning about the campsite, Tom also needs to go to the laboratory to help Lin Meiqi solve the technical difficulties of the Reinhardt armor.

Although this has already left the category of armor and should be called mecha, Lin Meiqi firmly insists on using the term "giant armor" to refer to it.

"The giant armor is also armor," she insisted confidently, and Tom couldn't say anything. After all, this device has no traditional concept of electronic technology at all, and it relies entirely on crystal technology to achieve it. It's not impossible to call it armor.

When the wild dogs attacked the old clinic camp, Bozi and an awakener hastily drove the giant armor to confront them. Although they successfully drove away two and killed two, they still exposed many shortcomings of the giant armor.

Firstly, there is the field of view, as the upper driver can only see outside through the eyes of their head, which is very limited. However, it is still acceptable when facing high-level creatures like wild dogs. But once it starts moving, it becomes very difficult to capture the movements of mutated organisms. In the battle at that time, the Giant Armor was mostly under the attack of mutated wild dogs, making it difficult to catch the agile wild dogs.

Next is the dilemma of actual combat.

An ordinary person who faces an attack from a dog is often suppressed due to differences in physical fitness and speed. Many people will be tackled and bitten by the dog, while better still, they will be bitten on their legs or dragged by their hands, putting them in a passive state during combat.

In that attack, Giant Armor was knocked down by two mutated dogs and then bit on his legs and arms, tearing them apart. Fortunately, others kept attacking and harassing with repulsive cannons, which allowed Giant Armor to find an opportunity to escape, and even so, he was torn off one leg. If it weren't for the repulsive heavy artillery hitting one of the dogs and causing it to let go in excruciating pain, one of the left legs of Reinhardt's armor would have been taken away by it.

Legs should not be made too thick in normal times, which affects flexibility. However, when attacked by the legs, it is easy to fall due to insufficient center of gravity in the lower part of the armor.

On the other hand, during combat, the arms of the giant armor hold weapons that can be attacked, but they are still easily removed from the weapon. However, in order to allow the palm to flexibly grip the weapon without being too large, if there is no weapon to rely on fist attacks, even if the palm is too small and tightly clenched into a fist, the quality is too small to achieve satisfactory striking effects.

A compromise solution for Meiqi is to increase the fist on the left arm and use the right arm to grip the weapon, achieving a repulsive gun or sword in one hand and a large fist in the other. However, existing technology cannot guarantee the stability of long-range weapon shooting with the right arm, and in hand to hand combat, it is also not effective to use both hands to grip and maximize the attack effect of strength enhancement.

This problem has given Lin Meiqi a headache, she has come up with several solutions but none of them work.

After thinking for a while, Tom turned around and ran to get the shapeshifting knife he had made. The original design of this large knife was to not only chop, but also transform into a long spear to achieve longer range thrust attacks in combat. However, in later battles, there was an assault rifle, and Tom hardly used its long spear form. The most commonly used one is actually combined with a shield to become a 10 centimeter heavy sword.

He concealed the process of the big knife turning into a long gun in front of Lin Meiqi and the old iron slag man. The wide edged knife was composed of metal bars that were controlled by the mind. After activating the control effect, a part of it was released, translated, and extended to become a long gun. The process only took more than a second, leaving the old iron slag man amazed.

"This is also amazing!"

On the contrary, Lin Meiqi immediately understood Tom's intention and excitedly pulled him and the old iron scum into her thinking space laboratory, directly constructing a 3D image of Reinhardt's armor inside.

"In version 36 of the blueprint, I designed two heavy shoulder pads to protect the arms and provide impact bonuses. However, considering the balance of upper body weight, they were removed after version 37."

Tom nodded and said with a smile, "Have you decided to add it now?"

Lin Meiqi excitedly licked her lips and said, "Yes, not only do we add shoulder armor, but we also need to add two layers of thin plates on both sides of our waist." She quickly slid a few times and the model of the giant armor underwent a new change. "With the deformation buckle technique you created, the shoulder armor can be transferred to the fist when needed, turning it into an iron fist sleeve, enhancing the weight and volume of the fist. That way, Reinhardt also has the strength to fight when the weapon is released."

The 3D giant armor diagram immediately demonstrated an animation, where the shoulder armor quickly decomposed into long strips and transferred to the palm at the end of the arm, and then combined to make the fist bigger, even with spikes.

"The thin plates on both sides of the waist can also be transferred to the lower part of the legs. In addition to increasing the weight of the feet, spikes can also be inserted into the ground through both arms to fix the feet, which can avoid tipping over when needed. Additionally, using a repulsive gun can also increase stability."

Lin Meiqi just glanced at the effect of the shapeshifting knife and was immediately able to come up with a solution to the problem, which made Tom very emotional and truly worthy of being a highly intelligent doctor.

"I need you to 'upload' a sledgehammer to me to digitize the folding buckle casting method for metal control, so that I can easily mass produce it quickly. Otherwise, it would be too time-consuming to rely solely on you to shape it. This deformation knife took you a lot of time, right?"

Tom nodded and immediately began to connect mentally with her, repeating the method of making metal strip buckles in his mind.

"The process of transforming from shoulder armor to holster, as well as the final shaping effect, also requires me to perform long-term calculations here, estimated to take 21 hours. However, it can be foreseen that your skills in the sledgehammer have solved the biggest problem with the giant armor, so..." Lin Meiqi said as she approached Tom and kissed Tom's cheek. "Thank you, sledgehammer, you are still as reliable as ever!"

Tom touched his cheek, and the kiss in his mind space had no tactile sensation, but the spiritual impact was even more real than in the real world.

Seeing Tom in a daze, Lin Meiqi laughed heartily and said, "Why, do you think you're in the thinking world? It's okay. When you come back and figure it out, I'll kiss you enough in the real world. Now, let's go out first and let me complete the design alone."

Tom and the iron scum old man withdrew from Lin Meiqi's thinking space. The iron scum old man burst out laughing as he looked at Tom with a embarrassed expression, then picked up his hand and walked towards the huge armor, "This girl is too difficult to serve. Finally, you're back, and you'll have to deal with her in the future, haha."

Tom scratched his face, feeling a bit embarrassed.

Since Lin Meiqi is dealing with the design of shoulder armor, he will come back to help Iron Old Man repair the giant armor.

In the camp, besides the Iron Old Man, there is also a young man who will be shaped with metal. However, most of the work is completed by the Iron Old Man. With Tom's joining, the progress of repairing the giant armor has been accelerated exponentially.

Bozi once discovered a large number of mutated ants in the ant nest on one side of the old street. After leading the team to kill them, they obtained a lot of crystals, among which the green control crystal was the most, which was enough to support their need to complete such a large armor production.

The dinner was originally sent by Tianzi, but unexpectedly it was replaced by several women, led by Feng Hanyun. Faced with Feng Hanyun's cold and warm words, Tom felt somewhat restrained in dealing with them. After all, Feng Hanyun had once confessed to him candidly, but he sternly refused at the time. Now that it has been three months, it is unexpected that she still hasn't given up.

In the end, the Iron Old Man couldn't bear to see it. He only drove the person away with his beard blown and eyes wide open. Then he smiled heartily and said, "Tom, you have an ordinary appearance, and you're quite provocative towards girls."

Tom's mind quickly recalled an online meme called "plain looking Louis Koo", but he had self-awareness that his appearance could never reach Louis Koo's level, which was very objective. As for provoking women... he cannot deny it, but this is not the time to think about it right now.

With last night's rest, Tom ate and slept in the laboratory today, which was something he used to do frequently. Once something got busy, his whole mind was focused on what to do, and he couldn't even sleep soundly.

The next afternoon, Lin Meiqi announced that the design was completed and she could start connecting with them at any time, starting to make shoulder armor and waist guards for the giant armor. But at this moment, Uncle Wei ran over and strongly demanded that they go eat and sleep to ensure they had enough energy to start.

After so long, Uncle Wei has become very familiar with the habits of the elderly and young. When it comes to work, he doesn't care about it, and his eating and sleeping functions even wish to remove that from his body. Therefore, he calculated the time for Lin Meiqi to complete the design and ran over, using his prestige to force them to rest before working.

Tom and his companions obeyed Uncle Wei's request and arrived at the dining hall. Uncle Rong and others had already prepared food, including rice, meat and vegetables, vegetables, and meat soup, and even hot ant eggs, which can be said to be nutritious.

During the meal, Tom asked about Shen Jiayi's situation, and Uncle Wei said he had already asked Liu Lexuan to accompany her, so Tom didn't have to worry. It seems that the general manager from Haiwei Mini Industry is very interested in everyone's situation. He spends the whole day chatting with others and is not afraid of anyone. He even found Tom's former colleague, the brainy Liang Pingchuan.

Liang Pingchuan was originally a skilled camper. When he was first received into the camp, he used sweet words to deceive Uncle Wei and others, gaining a lot of trust and favor, and was almost turned over by him. Fortunately, Lin Meiqi exposed his true identity in a timely manner. Just relying on his label of "often making things difficult for Tom in the company before, which almost caused Tom to be fired", it was enough to make most people in the camp sneer at him. Therefore, although he didn't want everyone to shout at him at the camp, basically everyone didn't like to get involved with him.

This time when he faced Shen Jiayi, he was sure to break his heart. However, Liu Letuan, who accompanied Shen Jiayi, was a big fan of Tom. Liang Pingchuan's boasting was exposed without mercy by her, and the words that he wanted to please Shen Jiayi were constantly roast by Liu Letuan.

When Shen Jiayi was in the shelter, she was not friendly enough and spent a lot of energy on the operation of the shelter every day, neglecting communication with ordinary survivors. Now that she is out of town, Tom is also very pleased that she can change her previous style.