This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!
Chapter 525: Li Moyang’s Black Technology

Chapter 525: Chapter 525: Li Moyang’s Black Technology

"Um...that armor...the thing you’re wearing, the Foundation’s armor is several sizes smaller than yours. Don’t you have their technology? Why is it so big, and it doesn’t even seem as strong?" Chen Ke asked.

"What Foundation?" Sleery didn’t understand, and Lucina didn’t care, knowing that Chen Ke understood was enough for her.

"Don’t interrupt, Sleery, just listen quietly from now on," Pankia said.

Li Moyang walked up to the Iron Man and sighed helplessly. He asked Chen Ke to come over and take a good look at the Iron Man.

Chen Ke saw the MK-1 insignia on the chest plate of the Iron Man and immediately knew that this was a prototype.

"Lin Yaying certainly provided me with technology from 100 years in the future, but... Chen Ke, I don’t have the materials and energy from 100 years in the future. For heavy industry, manufacturing, energy, and chips, technology is only one aspect; materials are the foundation that allows for the realization of the final product," Li Moyang explained.

Chen Ke nodded; having blueprints and formulas without any basic industrial chain meant that one could not create something that surpassed the era, just like having the complete manufacturing technology for a smartphone but being in a millennium past, where building a phone would be impossible.

Times are different and so is the basic industrial level of humanity. In some time-travel novels, where the protagonist goes back to ancient dynasties with 21st-century technology and theory, the idea that everything could be overturned is nothing but fanciful delusion.

The industrial base of the past — not to mention producing cutting-edge technological products like chips — couldn’t even manage to forge the steel that modern industrial systems could mass-produce. Even if you had blueprints for an automatic rifle, forcing its creation would result in something that would either explode or be completely unusable, let alone being able to make functional bullets.

"I call it the Pioneer MK1, powered by a 1200W lithium iron phosphate battery, with regular operations lasting only 4 minutes, and if it uses weapons and thrusters, the time would be reduced to 1 minute and 40 seconds. Transmission systems, circuits, fire control units... these are not the problems; I always have ways to solve them. Chen Ke, what really stumps me is the defense-providing shell and the internal inertia stabilizer and collision protection mechanisms," Li Moyang frowned.

Chen Ke knew what he meant.

To enhance defense, modern tanks are already pushed to the limit — thicker armor, explosive reactive armor as active defense — the cost being heaviness, slowness, and increased fuel consumption.

"Have you seen the armor that the Foundation’s task force wears... you know what I mean? How can they make it so small... so thin... yet so much stronger in defense than mine?" Li Moyang shook his head.

"Maybe they have magic," Chen Ke spread his hands.

"Perhaps! What’s really fatal is inertial acceleration; even if the armor can protect against physical strikes, inertia objectively exists. Look at my forehead, and you’ll understand," Li Moyang pointed at the band-aid stuck on his forehead.

"And the G-forces during high-speed flight, I’ve seen them fly, and that thing can really fly. But the problem is, if you go too fast, make a turn, or come to an abrupt stop, how could the person inside possibly withstand it?" Chen Ke said.

"That’s right, and they incorporated too much weaponry inside. The structures in the legs and back of my Pioneer MK1 are 20 times thicker than the original design... just to cram in the rocket ignition and nozzles. Plus, I have to carry extra fuel; otherwise, this thing might not even last for 20 seconds," Li Moyang shook his head.

"It seems like your iron buddy here is still at a very preliminary stage. But... I noticed you used a move, severing its arm? Spiritual Monsters aren’t afraid of ordinary flamethrowers — what kind of ’black technology’ did you use?" Chen Ke said.

"This is the only thing I can take pride in, Chen Ke." Li Moyang smiled, walked over to the arm lying on the ground, fiddled around for a while, opened the cover on the back of the upper arm, and handed something to Chen Ke from inside.

Chen Ke took it and found it was an orange Holy Diamond, and a pop-up information box appeared in his vision:

[???]

```

[Damaged]

[Lost]

[ggg#%@￥@Swordsman’s#&@#,Badge%@##￥@...Unable to read]

```

"You’re not telling me you’ve been using the Holy Relics as fuel to shoot flames?" Chen Ke looked seriously at Li Moyang.

"What else? Ordinary weapons can’t deal with Spiritual Ability Users and those monsters. I’ve researched for a long time, and this is the only way I could use the Holy Relics. I’ve tried various colors; white ones are completely useless, they shatter as soon as I draw energy from them. Blue ones can only emit flames for less than ten seconds, and the flames are blue, not very powerful. Only the orange-yellow ones are somewhat better, but there are too few of these Holy Relics." Li Moyang said.

"Oh... that’s quite impressive, why don’t you just inject a tube into your spine?" Chen Ke said.

"I would never let such filthy power enter my body." Li Moyang shook his head.

Chen Ke remained noncommittal, but he was clear that Li Moyang wasn’t the kind of person to obsessively seek power and become possessed, certainly not turning into the next Bader.

"I’ve also fitted standard weapons, like the revolving Vulcan cannon, which can only fire for six seconds. I can’t carry more ammunition, and there’s also a pneumatic pump installed in my right arm, capable of delivering a 12-ton force impact within a 1-meter extension range. However, using this too much leads to metal fatigue in the mechanical arm’s joints." Li Moyang, chin in hand, seemed to be introducing Chen Ke, or perhaps just talking to himself.

"So..." Chen Ke tried to interject.

"So the task for MK2... further lightening of the external armor... the ideal height reduction would be down to 2.5 meters, while doubling the battery life. The head is a problem... at this stage, there’s no need to design the monitor to look like a head..." Li Moyang rambled on.

"Hey!" Chen Ke slapped Li Moyang.

"Oh! Sorry... I just went into engineer mode there. Chen Ke, look, my Pioneer MK1 is broken, and it’s going to take a long time to fix. If you are planning to go after Yasla now, I won’t be able to help." Li Moyang said.

"No... you’ve already been a great help. You’re the president of a conglomerate, you shouldn’t be going into battle in armor. It’s better to sit in an office and solve problems with money. Besides, Yasla is my personal issue, I will go alone." Chen Ke said.

"Chen Ke, I suggest you wait a few days. I will call Wuan Heavy Industry tonight, they will provide me with spare parts through smuggling routes. In at most four days, I can get it moving again." Li Moyang said.

"Four days of rest, then two minutes of action." Lucina laughed.

"Oh... that’s a bit short." Sleery shook her head.

"The person I need to rescue can’t wait four days. Plus, we’ve already waited nine days; I don’t even know if she’s still alive. I’m setting off in a moment." Chen Ke said.

"I advise you to calm down. You’ve fought that monster; you should know that if I hadn’t come, you wouldn’t have been able to beat it." Li Moyang said.

"If you hadn’t supplied that grenade launcher, I indeed would have had a hard time beating it. So... Li Moyang, if you insist on helping me, then arm me with a few more big guns." Chen Ke said.