Rebecca grinned broadly and patted its sturdy armor: "No problem, wait until this test is over, I'm going to give you a nice paint job, I promise you'll look cool enough!"
"Uh... if it's green, I might not like it..." Finally, the tank showed some emotion.
Mercer watched as the two went to change their mech suits, then faced the gang all enthusiastically looking at him, smilingly promised: "Relax, as long as the prototype is fine, after this I'll place the order for the raw materials, making two more within a month is no problem.
This time we also have design experience, whatever designs you like can be shared with me—next time Spark Team goes out, everyone will have their own Single Soldier Armor, ha, even company agents won't have our vibe."
Jack rubbed his hands, excitedly saying: "Seriously? Everyone gets one? This thing isn't cheap, right?"
"Single Soldier Armor compatible with the Frenzy System, the cost is just about a Million Euros... Hahaha, don't worry, this thing counts as team equipment expenses."
After Mercer finished speaking with a smile, he pondered: "I'll remove the AI when the time comes, fool Hansen to buy it as if it's using the same design as Arasaka's exoskeleton super Single Soldier Armor...
Selling it to him for three to five million won't just recover all the costs?"
The core technology of the entire exoskeleton is actually the built-in AI program and algorithm. Without AI and algorithm-assisted output, this armor is strictly speaking just a more flexible full-body covered version of the Centaur exoskeleton.
Also, retrofitting it with the same model of brain-computer interface drive as Arasaka—this damned brain-computer interface direct link operating method can greatly improve personal armor response speed, but the neural load, well...
In sum, just let Hansen himself find some unfortunate soul to use it.
Moreover, Mercer thought it might work to sell a set to Hans, hmm, maybe sell one to Kangtao too? Not sure if Tsunami Defense or Midnight Military would want a set...
Seeing this group of people packing up to go out together, Mercer quickly pulled over two strong dudes: "Jack, Pira, help me load the other equipment onto the truck, this time we're going to test all the weapons and devices."
"Uh, all of them?" Pira inhaled sharply, during this period, he had been Mercer's assistant in equipment development, although he couldn't keep up with Mercer's ideas completely, he handled a lot of assembly, splicing, and testing tasks for him.
Therefore, no one knows better than him how many peculiar and strange weapons and equipment Mercer has developed aside from several big inventions during this period.
For example, when Mercer was developing the Octopus Arm, he incidentally developed mechanical whips while researching bionic mechanical structures, and various cold weapons when researching metal materials.
Along with various electromagnetic weapons, missiles, firearms, hand grenades, and during personal armor development, the derived various unmanned robots...
"Of course, we need to see which of these things are practically valuable and which need improvement, afterward I'll focus my research on biology and prosthetics development, drug research, and various chips.
The follow-up improvement on this equipment is me giving you the experiment direction and design ideas, you implement them."
Mercer said matter-of-factly.
But Pira looked troubled: "Boss, I'm not a genius like you, to be honest, I'm fine as your assistant, but independently developing... even with your design ideas, wouldn't work, maybe with a blueprint, I could piece it together..."
Mercer encouragingly patted his shoulder: "Don't underestimate yourself, following me around these six months, you've been using Relic's Deep Blue System to learn related knowledge weekly.
Combined with the accumulated work experience from working with me, you aren't less competent than those design developers in big companies.
Have some confidence in yourself, I believe in your technical development, you do have quite the talent."
In Mercer's words, half was encouragement, and half was truth; initially, he thought Pira's potential might be just street-level technical experts.
But unexpectedly, despite this guy constantly complaining about hard work, when working he's quite patient, he's naturally fond of tinkering with various machines and circuit boards, and doesn't lack intuition in equipment development.
Just previously, his knowledge reserve was too lacking; not having studied much, but now with Mercer's development of Relic's learning system allowing for weekly large-scale knowledge storage in the brain, Pira's technical level is rapidly improving.
The knowledge forcibly instilled into his brain is all self-digested through practice when designing and developing alongside Mercer, you could say his current level, while being a project director might be a bit challenging.
But if it's just following Mercer's design ideas and thinking to complete project optimizations and improvements in a predetermined direction, it isn't an impossible task for him.
"Uh..." Pira looked into Mercer's eyes, scratched his head, and sighed: "Alright, I'll try... But doesn't this mean I won't have time to go out and play again?
I say, boss... you promised I'd get to enjoy the city after finishing these tasks, yet yesterday when I went to Liz, I didn't even see Mewtwo..."
He showed a pitiful expression: "My prepaid membership card isn't even fully used yet! I still want to enjoy myself at the Cloud Apex..."
Mercer smacked him on the back grumpily: "GO WORK! Stay low-key for me during this time, once we meet up with Yoshinobu, if everything goes smoothly, we won't need to hide out in Dog Town anymore."