Chapter 47: You said weapons of this level are common goods?
There was no time to feel heartbroken about his daughter's rebelliousness. Just as Ai Yue unplugged the data transmitter, the doorbell rang.
"Who?"
Ai Yue went over and opened the door, and found that standing outside was Sakura, whom he had not seen for a long time.
"Excuse me." Seeing Ai Yue appear, Sakura bowed first, then picked up the box in her hand, "The mission has been completed, I am here to return the equipment."
"Oh, it's done? How efficient." Ai Yue couldn't help but sigh when he heard Sakura's words, "Come in first, I'll collect some actual combat data first."
"Okay." Sakura nodded slightly to prevent her ears from shaking, then followed Ai Yue into the laboratory.
"Welcome to Research Institute X, Miss Sakura." Prometheus saw Sakura and nodded to her, "Please put the equipment box here."
As Prometheus spoke, a virtual arrow pointing downwards suddenly appeared on the right platform of the supercomputer.
After Sakura put the box on, the indicator lights around it lit up, as if the data of the internal equipment could be read directly in this way.
"Sit down." Ai Yue pushed a chair over and handed Sakura a bottle of drink. "Tell me, how is your experience?"
"Thank you." Sakura took the drink but chose not to sit down. It seemed that she was still used to standing. "The user experience... is very good."
Thinking back on her energy over the past few days, Sakura's cheeks even turned red with excitement.
The weapons and equipment provided by Vill-V were actually quite good, but compared with the equipment prepared by Ai Yue, they seemed mediocre.
Whether it's the gloves that can trigger time-space rifts, the samurai sword that can cut through everything, or the shoes that can stay in the air or even double jump, each one is enough to subvert Sakura's previous fighting style.
Sakura actually didn't pay much attention to Ai Yue's introduction at first, because the other party's statement was too exaggerated, and she thought it was some kind of self-boasting.
It was not until she actually began to experience the effects of this equipment that she realized that Ai Yue's statement was still a bit restrained.
In the past, she was an assassin hiding in the shadows, skilled in lurking and surprise attacking, seizing the enemy's weakness when they were off guard and killing them with one blow.
But with Ai Yue's equipment, Sakura felt as if she had turned into a berserker.
Flaws? In front of this Sword, no matter if the opponent is hiding behind a shield or in a metal-cast safe house, he will be full of flaws.
Sakura cleared out the entire Poison Pupa army from beginning to end, but she didn't encounter anything that could block this Sword.
The Time and Space Fracture Technology allows her to escape in all kinds of incredible ways when facing heavy enemy encirclement. With this glove, bullets are not even as fast as flying butterflies in her eyes. Even the area damage of explosives such as grenades cannot catch up with her escape.
As for the pair of shoes that can jump in the air, under Sakura's control, the left and right feet can be triggered separately to achieve the effect of a triple jump. Not only can it climb a ten-meter-high wall in one go and change direction twice in the air, it can even be used as an unexpected attack weapon to directly blow the enemy away.
Even the most plain vest with only defensive function can block the sniping of large-caliber sniper rifles, weakening the additional impact force to a level that the fusion warrior can withstand, and even has a self-repair function, so there is no need to worry about gradually losing defense during continuous combat.
With these pieces of equipment, Sakura basically killed the entire Poison Pupa army by herself with just a Sword. Most of the weapons that Vill-V had carefully prepared were of no use, causing her to keep complaining that the data collection was not enough and that she should not have brought Ai Yue in.
This emotion reached its peak when Vill-V learned that Ai Yue had specifically told Sakura not to lend her the equipment for observation, and she ended up running back to the Spiral Workshop in anger, without even seeing Dr. Mei.
After Ai Yue briefly asked Sakura about her experience, he received a completely positive response and couldn't help but nod in satisfaction.
However, after that, Sakura showed a rare hesitation. After much hesitation, she finally spoke: "I'm sorry, although this request may be a little abrupt, I wonder if Dr. Ai Yue can give up that Sword? I really like it!"
As she spoke, she bent down deeply and took out a bank card from her pocket: "This is my savings over the years. If possible, please allow me to buy it."
Sakura knew very well what a good enough weapon meant to a warrior, not to mention that she had experienced the power of this sword with her own hands. Although she had only experienced it for less than a week, Sakura was already a little dependent on it.
During this period of time, Sakura even had trouble sleeping when she thought about parting with the sword after the mission was over.
"I think you probably misunderstood, Sakura." Facing Sakura's actions, Ai Yue's expression was a little subtle, "I didn't say I wanted to take back these equipment, did I?"
'Ah?'
Sakura looked up blankly, only to see Ai Yue had already turned around to get the equipment box: "Rose, have you finished collecting the data?"
"It has been collected three minutes, fourteen seconds and sixty-one seconds ago," Prometheus responded, "The database content has been updated, and the equipment blueprint is being updated. Do you want to check it now?"
"Wait a minute." Ai Yue waved his hand, then walked back and handed the equipment box to Sakura, "Go ahead and use it. You don't have to worry about owning it, and you don't have to pay for it. This kind of equipment will be installed on a large scale for fusion fighters in the future."
Of course, he couldn't ask Sakura for the salary she had worked so hard to save - there were other people who should have paid for these things.
'Something like this...large-scale implementation?'
Sakura subconsciously held the box in her arms, still with that confused expression on her face.
"I thought such weapons would be difficult to mass-produce." The girl finally came to her senses from her fantasy and shook her head in self-mockery, "It seems that I underestimated your ability, Dr. Ai Yue."
The powerful weapons that made Vill-V so jealous were just ordinary equipment that could be mass-produced quickly by Ai Yue. Although such an idea was a bit rude to Vill-V, Sakura still couldn't help but imagine how big the gap was between Vill-V and Ai Yue.
However, even if such equipment would be mass-produced, Sakura still silently kept Ai Yue's kindness to her in her heart - there were many members of the Fire Moth, but few were willing to show kindness to people like her.
'If I have the chance, I must repay you well.'
Sakura quickly left here with gratitude in her heart. However, before Ai Yue had time to look at Prometheus' updated weapon blueprints, new communication came on the phone.
"There is a result regarding Kalpas." Dr. Mei's voice came from the receiver, "However, there is a meeting that you need to attend."
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