Chapter 1125: Chapter 76: The Fusang Designer’s New Proposal

Special Operations Armor Test Sequence 10205, codename “Ranger”.

The object appearing before Wang Yunxiao no longer resembles a humanoid; it looks more like a supersized mantis shrimp.

The protective capabilities of the entire armor are concentrated on the back, resembling a layered shrimp and crab shell. Two plastic lances are mounted on the shoulders, which can be used for close-range headbutt attacks or launched as projectiles. Complementing this are small Yuan-Qi Furnaces installed on the legs, also used for close-range projectile sprints, while the abdomen and limbs are equipped with numerous retractable plastic fin-shaped triangle spikes.

After studying it for a while, Wang Yunxiao finally understood the design concept of this armor.

The answer lies in the surface; it’s a set of ranger armor.

Armor that can swim under the sea, serving as a mount for soldiers.

The tactical concept proposed by Wang Yunxiao was indeed valuable, but even after repeated discussions, the Navy’s top brass still decided not to abandon the original plan. Both parties compromised, which resulted in this strange creation.

The establishment of an elite Sea People unit is essential, considering not only tactical usage but also strategic value, or rather, factors beyond the battlefield.

In areas where direct control is challenging and the local cognition level is still stuck in a primitive society with a slave system, demanding loyalty, progress, etc., from them is difficult to achieve.

It’s like certain impoverished villages in the mountains where you suggest breeding pigs to gain wealth in the morning, only for them to cook the pig by noon. The situation of Sea People is much more complex.

Therefore, it’s necessary to establish a modern-educated elite force with advanced thinking. Through these warriors, various backward issues within the tribe can be gradually resolved.

But more efficient tactical ideas cannot be abandoned either.

Thus, the “Ranger” came into being.

This armor’s specific usage is similar to ancient heavy cavalry, where elite Sea People warriors ride armored Sea People fighters to charge against the Deep Sea Tribe’s clusters. After charging, the elite warriors can disengage on the spot, regain mobility, leaving their mounts in place, preserving vital forces while providing a fatal lure for the Sea Serpent Clan.

This… can this really work?

Wang Yunxiao wasn’t a Sea Person, so he couldn’t provide true expertise, and thus turned to ask the designer of this plan. Master Cai explained that it was proposed by a recently graduated researcher from the Yokosuka Port Navy Vessel Research Institute.

This researcher, named Kuroki, originally intended to name his work “Huitian Knight”, but possibly due to being deemed too adolescent, the final product was presented as this “Ranger”.

The Navy’s top brass didn’t completely agree on this design plan either, mainly because it was too strange, with flaws all over yet hard to articulate.

But the Yokosuka side sworn up and down that the practicality of this design would exceed expectations. They even applied for conducting a cleanup operation against the Gray Leather Pagans in the coastal areas of Fusang within a month, employing the Ranger in actual combat to observe its effectiveness.

They had already pledged a military order, making it hard for the higher-ups to argue back.

After all, compared to the costs of shipbuilding, the cost of small-scale mass production of these individual weapon systems is negligible. Before the mass autumn hunting of the Deep Sea Tribe arrives, it is indeed necessary to conduct a couple of such war rehearsals.

As a researcher in the Special Operations Division of the Logistics and Equipment Department, Wang Yunxiao was naturally assigned the task of a field study in Fusang.

“So you’re going on a business trip?”

Li Mumu, lying in bed, stared at Wang Yunxiao with an expression full of grievance.

Men, they’re all the same; once they have something, they don’t appreciate it.

I’m bedridden with illness, and all you bought was two bottles of canned peaches to placate me?

Other husbands buy apples for their wives, sit beside them peeling the apples, and feed their wives small pieces.

You give me a spoon and expect me to eat peaches straight from the can?

Romance, where are you!?

“Do you want an apple?”

“No.”

For crying out loud.

These days, apples available in Tianmen City aren’t particularly sweet. One reason is the lack of scientific selective breeding from future developments, and another is that the local soil and water aren’t suitable for growing apples.

Even the green radishes dug up from the field are crisper than apples.

With Eldest Miss Li’s picky taste, she naturally wouldn’t eat such low-grade fruit. If you let her nibble on apples lying in her sickbed, she’d surely explode.

Because he understood this woman’s temperament, Wang Yunxiao skipped buying apples.

Yet, he still got blamed.

“Then how about I peel you a pineapple?”

“Okay, but you need to cut it into small, bite-sized pieces and marinate them meticulously in fine salt, with nary a prickly spot on them.”

“You must be joking with me.”

“I am indeed joking with you.”

Gazing at Li Mumu’s sparkling eyes, Wang Yunxiao sighed helplessly.

She was doing it on purpose.

If you can’t tease your husband, what’s the point of getting married?

It’s much like how having children is pointless if they’re not for fun.

“It’s okay to want pineapple; just say something nice.”

Li Mumu exclaimed, “You want a tip for peeling a pineapple for a patient?”

Wang Yunxiao nodded and said, “Helping you open a can of peaches is free; peeling a pineapple is a paid service.”

“Come closer, and I’ll whisper it.”

Wang Yunxiao leaned his head closer.

“A bit closer. Are you afraid I’ll bite you?”

Afraid.

Wang Yunxiao pursed his lips and leaned a bit closer.

Li Mumu turned her head close to his ear and whispered softly: “Brother~ Brother~”

Goosebumps shot up all over Wang Yunxiao.

“I really want to eat it~ Please~”

That’s it, can’t handle it!

Wang Yunxiao quickly straightened up, glaring sternly at Li Mumu.

Demon! Disturbing my Dao heart!

Li Mumu, expressionless, opened her mouth, sticking her tongue out sideways, assuming the posture of a victim not having eaten for days, as if the sweet voice had nothing to do with her, merely an illusion of Wang Yunxiao’s.

“Want to eat… pineapple…”

Wang Yunxiao took a deep breath and turned around to go cut a pineapple.

Can’t be angry; this is the wife I chose.

It wasn’t easy to cut a pineapple without a single prickly part, removing the core, soaking in saltwater, and Wang Yunxiao returned to the ward.

Li Mumu had her hands and feet all tucked under the blanket, leaving only her mouth exposed, clearly showing her intentions.

Feed me.

Feed, feed, feed.

Wang Yunxiao picked up a toothpick, speared a piece of pineapple, and fed it to his wife’s mouth.

“Is it tasty?”

“Tasty.”

As long as it’s tasty, finally managed to serve this little granny comfortably.

Just as he was about to relax, Li Mumu muttered, “Wang Yunxiao, I want to eat pineapple fried rice.”

“…”

“It needs to have shrimp, cashews, ham, peas, diced carrots…”

“You think you look like fried rice!”

“Boo hoo, I’m so miserable, lying injured in the hospital, and no one cooks fried rice for me…”

Li Mumu began fake crying while eating the pineapple.