CHAPTER 1160: SECTION 714: SAGE (2)

The battle among children over toys sometimes gives all fathers a headache, and Malin is no exception. Especially when the toy is a pitiful and weak big-eared rabbit that can spit fire beads, Malin can only ask the guards to go to the market to find a pair of rabbits.

But distant water doesn’t quench the near thirst. After several unsuccessful negotiations, he had to use his Spiritual Energy to pick up Matilda and Jessica’s two little brats and hang them on the clothesline.

Then, right in front of these two little brats, he slaughtered the rabbit and made it into braised rabbit head.

The two little brats yelled and jumped around for quite a while until they were exhausted and obediently sat down at the table to eat a meal of braised rabbit meat sandwiches, eventually agreeing that Dad’s braised rabbit meat was really delicious.

At this point, a pair of rabbits was in place. Malin placed the two rabbits in front of his children: "The elder brother decides on the numbering, the younger brother gets to choose first."

The two brothers whispered for a while and eventually returned the two rabbits.

"Can we eat little rabbits again tonight?" The elder wolf pup Aita showed his wild ambition.

"What about you?" Malin looked at his younger brother, the little fox Pierce.

"I want to eat too." Said Pierce, with a mouth full of oil, giving his father a sweet smile.

Malin looked at Clovis’ little rabbit, this kid named Donny, who had been fluffing up in his mother’s arms frantically since just now.

Noticing Malin looking at him, the white fur in the little fellow’s ears fluffed up, and he squealed inexplicably, which left his mother Clovis feeling a bit helpless.

Malin could only send these two kids off first, and then came to Donny, comforting him before taking him into his arms.

After painstakingly soothing this little one’s fear, Malin decided that no matter what, he would never make braised rabbit head in front of this child again.

After giving the little ones a lecture, Malin bid farewell to his family and then quickly headed to the newly built assembly factory in the east of the city—the Pioneer Corps had found a small automated factory nearby, its core could still be activated, and although the assembly line was broken, they still established a new factory in the east of the City of Awakeners after extracting useful parts.

The refurbished assembly line is currently mainly responsible for producing bullets, among which buckshot will primarily be supplied to Awakeners and Adventurers. The former is currently providing New Hangzhou with various pre-catastrophe materials in a steady stream, and to strengthen bilateral friendship, the supply of buckshot increased by 30%—after all, with Awakeners involved in eliminating the aberrations in the Dark Zone, the Adventurer teams and the Pioneer Corps could suffer less damage.

Malin went to order some bullets because the action over at Sostak No.3 might require large-scale firefights. To ensure the bullets’ lethality, Malin needed a large number of steel core armor-piercing bullets—in Malin’s view, it’s no big deal if the barrel gets worn out, they can always be replaced, but he couldn’t afford to take a hit because the bullets weren’t lethal enough.

Although Spell Formation effects on groups are stronger, zombies have always been a threat due to their numbers. Against the sea of zombies attack, Malin believed mortals could only stop their assaults with lay-flat machine guns.

In the factory, he ran into Sage Zhang—Sage Zhang is a rather young Sage who inherited the title during the last Tide of the Dead, a very cheerful young man who got along well with Malin. He also expressed some confidence in the upcoming operation against the satellite factory and was a textbook case of a firepower deficiency sufferer.

Malin’s six-legged mobile platform was very much to his liking, as he believed the six-legged platform had better passability in rough areas than all tracked vehicles.

So Malin specially gave him the blueprints, and now he was working with a group of Great Craftsmen to handcraft it on the spot.

Malin also used his Spiritual Energy to help them process a batch of parts, and as he was about to leave, Sage Zhang called him back.

"Is there something, Brother Zhang?" Not wanting to dwell on the Sage title with peers, Malin asked.

And Sage Zhang laughed: "It should be me calling you brother. Thank you for the blueprints and parts. Maybe we can take two twin-mounted anti-aircraft machine guns on the operation this time, which will effectively improve combat efficiency."

"By the way, I also have blueprints for a biped mech. Do you guys want it?"

"Biped mech, good stuff! Brother Ma, do you have a prototype?!"

Malin smiled—of course, he did.

Not walking away, Malin straightforwardly went to the Academy of Sciences and brought back a Model One and a modified Model One—the latter was a modification required by the Eastern Kingdom. The modified Model One lowered the body’s height, used a four-legged walking mechanism, and the mortar used at the back needed the body to lean forward when firing. It also required a gnome to use a hoist to load shells, but this 150mm caliber big guy was well-received on the plains of the Eastern Kingdom, and Malin had already started using Chaos heads as currency for arms trading with the Eastern Kingdom.

Then these heads would be sold to the Nobles of various countries far from the battlefront—look, these Chaos heads are still very popular as sacrificial items, so Malin didn’t actually lose much.

Sage Zhang was thrilled to obtain these two machines: "I’ve always wanted to create something like this but always struggled with the walking mechanism. Now it looks like you’ve solved everything for me. Thank you, Brother Ma."