The middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses shook his head repeatedly and said with a smile, "We have completed all the preparations. Why don't we go in first and talk as we go?"
"Well, trouble, Dr. Ent."
Dr. Ent turned around and was about to take Zefa and others in when he suddenly discovered a very embarrassing thing - the iron door was closed again at some point, and the rungs in front of him were like a big mountain.
"This is?"
Zefa turned to look at him in confusion.
"..."
Dr. Ent's eyes twitched, he raised his head towards the top of the door, and shouted angrily: "What are you doing, you bastard! What do you mean by suddenly closing the door? Open the door for me!"
"Don't open it." A muffled voice came from the top of the door, "The base has base rules. In order to protect the safety of scientific research, the door must be closed when strangers come."
"You're such a big-headed guy!"
Dr. Ent's roaring voice is eye-catching, and it is difficult to associate him with the gentle and elegant image wearing gold-rimmed glasses just now:
"This is General Zefa! Wasn't he among the people you admired most before? Now that we meet him in person, can't he recognize him?"
From the top of the iron gate, there was a rustling sound.
A fat young man stuck his head out and glanced at Zefa suspiciously, showing hesitation, but in the end he shook his head and said solemnly:
"Appearance is the easiest thing to imitate. I will never open the door until I receive an order from the mountain!"
"Am I not your superior?" Dr. Ent shouted angrily, "Now, I order you to open the door for me immediately!"
"If you were still at the base, of course I would open it."
The fat boy, who looked like a sumo wrestler, crossed his arms, snorted, looked at him with disdain and said:
"But you are outside now. Who can prove that your package was not stolen when you went out? As the guard captain of the base, I have to be responsible for the security of the base, and you also have to prove that you are you, Ent
PhD."
This logic is really impeccable... Nuo Xia, who was behind the crowd, held her forehead and sighed.
He had already recognized who this little fat man was - there was no doubt that the only one with this size was Zhan Momomaru, who had served as Kizaru's subordinate and captain of the Navy's scientific force in the future.
A rough calculation shows that this kid is only fourteen or fifteen years old now. He is two and a half meters tall. He is fat and strong. I don’t know what he ate to grow up...
In front of the iron gate, Dr. Ent's face turned the color of pig liver with anger, while Zefa on the side touched his head and laughed dumbly:
"Interesting little guy, even I need to prove my identity..."
"Don't mind." Dr. Ent said immediately, "I'll call the deputy at the base and ask him to come and open the door..."
"No need to bother."
Zefa spit out the toothpick from the corner of his mouth, rolled up his sleeves, exposed his darkened arms, and grinned, "It's very simple to make this kid believe that I am the black-armed Zefa himself."
boom!
Under Dr. Ent's stunned gaze, he punched out with a sudden punch. The huge iron door, which was more than ten meters high, trembled violently, and then collapsed backwards.
Snap.
Zhan Taowan, who was clinging to the top of the gate, was caught off guard. He screamed and fell directly from the air, and was firmly pressed under the iron gate.
"look."
Zefa clapped his hands, turned to the dumbfounded Dr. Ent and said with a smile, "Isn't this door just open?"
——General Zefa! Dr. Ent looked at the collapsed iron door and felt like crying. It was very laborious to repair this kind of door!
However, the latter was already laughing loudly, leading the disciples through the iron gate and striding into the base.
Whenever someone passed by, Zhan Taowan under the iron gate screamed, until Nuo Xia at the back couldn't bear to look at it, so she mercifully lifted the iron gate with one hand and pulled him out with the other.
"Thank you... thank you." Zhan Taowan made a vague voice.
It's too awful……
Looking at the little fat man whose face was swollen into a pig's head, Nuo Xia felt sympathetic and patted him on the shoulder:
"You said you...you were punished for insisting on stopping Teacher Zefa, right? Where is the medical room at your base? How about I send you there?"
Zhan Taowan, whose eyes were originally too swollen to open, suddenly became energetic, became furious, and shouted sternly:
"How brave! It turned out to be a spy who sneaked in in disguise and dared to inquire about the layout of the base!"
"I am the most tight-lipped man in the scientific army. Do you think that if you pull me, I will tell you that the medical room is to the east of the research institute building?"
"..."
Nuo Xia looked at him for a while, wiped the spittle on his face, silently picked up the little fat man, and roughly stuffed him back under the iron door.
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The incident that occurred at the gate of the base did not cause much hindrance to the progress of the actual combat assessment.
Under the leadership of Dr. Ent, the group walked through various strange-looking buildings until they reached the back of the experimental base.
What appeared before everyone's eyes was a large, dense primeval forest, and the roar of beasts that had been faint outside the iron gate now became extremely clear, clearly coming from this forest.
Will the actual combat assessment be conducted in this forest?
The sailors frowned. You looked at me, I looked at you, and you probably had a guess in your mind.
At this time, Zefa no longer wanted to show off, turned around, smiled and said:
"Okay, now that we've arrived, it's almost time to introduce the rules to you."
"In the primeval forest in front, there are a large number of mimic combat robots produced by the headquarters' research institute. Some resemble giant apes and some resemble rhinos. All standing robots are endowed with combat capabilities similar to those of the races they look like."
"The next part of your assessment is to enter this forest and fight these robots."
Zefa paused after speaking and looked at the man in a white coat aside, "Dr. Ent, please demonstrate."
"no problem."
Dr. Ent had returned to normal. He nodded, took out a remote control from his arms, and after a few simple operations, there was a sudden movement at the edge of the forest.
Three robots stepped out of the bushes and stood side by side in front of the crowd.
From left to right, they look like baboons, mammoths and giants respectively.
The heights are also arranged from low to high. The shortest baboon-shaped combat robot is less than two meters tall, while the mammoth is five or six meters tall.
As for the giant-like robot, it was fifteen or six meters tall. It stood there silently, as strong as a hill, and everyone could only look up at it.
"ae-86..."
Nuo Xia noticed that the giant's abdomen was marked with such a line of numbers. His eyes suddenly flashed and he thought thoughtfully, "Are these combat robots the predecessors of future pacifists?"
The Pacifist was developed under the leadership of Dr. Vegapunk. I don't know if this second testing base has anything to do with the genius scientist who is said to be five hundred years ahead of the world.
He remembered that the numbers of the pacifists all started with px, and the numbers of the robots in front of him started with ae. There must be at least dozens of generations in between, right?
After all, scientific and technological development needs to be done step by step. Nuo Xia naturally understands this, but he did not expect that as early as nineteen years ago, the Navy Headquarters had already begun to try to develop this kind of humanoid weapon with combat capabilities...
After so many years of upgrading and transformation, each of the future pacifists is a terrifying war machine, with strength comparable to that of pirates with hundreds of millions of bounties on their heads.
Acting alone, you can easily arrest a supernova with a bounty of over 100 million, and travel sideways throughout the first half of the Grand Line.
And how much combat power do these old and obviously crude "classic machines" in front of us have?
Fortunately, Dr. Ent quickly gave the answer.
"The combat machines produced by our research institute, although as Mr. Zefa said, have different shapes and almost include the vast majority of beasts, they can generally be divided into three grades."
"The first gear, just like the baboon you saw, is the weakest among the three types of combat machines."
"Robots at this level all have numbers starting with ac. According to our previous rounds of testing, they can easily defeat several elite soldiers who have been on the battlefield for a long time."
Everyone's faces showed no emotion after hearing this. As quasi-graduates of the elite battalion, enemies of this level obviously could not pose any threat to them.
"As for the second gear, like this Mammoth, the numbers start with ad. The strength shown in the test can already compete with the strong ones around the headquarters such as lieutenant colonel and major."
This has to make people pay attention. Many elite sailors couldn't help but glance at the mammoth with solemn eyes. After all, the positions most of them can hold after graduation are only at this level.
"As for the third level, those whose numbers start with ae are not only powerful, almost as strong as a brigadier general in our headquarters, but also have a certain level of intelligence. They can scan people's faces to confirm whether they are on the bounty list."
Dr. Ent paused and said with a smile, "Of course, it is not easy to make such a big thing, and the cost is extremely high. Our second experimental base only has eight units in total."
Buzz!
As expected, when Dr. Ent finished speaking, there was an uproar in the crowd.
No one cared how many units there were of this thing, and how difficult it was to make. The sailors present were completely attracted by what Dr. Ent said, with expressions of surprise on their faces.
This kind of iron lump, who looks just a little bigger, can actually have combat power comparable to that of a general in the headquarters?
What a joke!
Excluding some parallel imports from the Sihai branch, who can serve as a general in the headquarters, even if it is just a brigadier general, who is not a strong man with outstanding military exploits and strong strength?
The ten commodores who came with the ship, as well as Dauberman and Dalmecia, also frowned and looked at the giant robot in front of them, their expressions a little unnatural.
When they first heard that their position could be replaced by a machine, it was a bit hard for them to accept, and even their world view was greatly affected.