As night approached, the disappearance of the escorting soldiers triggered a large - scale search in the Imperial base. However, this search ended very quickly.
The Imperial soldiers exchanged knowing looks about how a male soldier escorting two defenseless female soldiers could go missing. These two women had nothing to do with them; they were the prey of the officers. Some soldiers were even a bit gloating
Even such a cursory search made the fat man tremble with fear. He held his breath and clung to the wall of the hole, listening intently for every slightest sound around him.
An Imperial soldier approached the bush, but the overgrown branches and thorns quickly made him abandon the idea of entering. He carefully examined the outside of the bush and, seeing no signs of anyone passing by, turned around and left.
Yuri breathed a sigh of relief. When his tensed body relaxed, he suddenly noticed that two soft bodies were snuggling up to him closely. The intermittent touch of the exposed forearms with the skin of the female soldiers gave him an indescribable and intoxicating feeling, making the virgin Yuri feel as if he were in a dream.
"Hey, we still don't know your name yet," said the female medical soldier softly and faintly."Well, I'm Yuri, a corporal in the First Squad, Logistics Squadron, Third Armored Battalion, Fifth Division," the fat man replied in a very restrained and slightly trembling voice, which was the result of the tingling feeling in his arm.
"I'm Meiduo," the female medical soldier said softly as before. "She's Niya."
The female pilot Niya seemed to be almost asleep. When she heard her name, she mumbled a half - asleep response.
At night, it was completely dark. The only star in the Newton system, also known as the sun, disappeared below the horizon. On this moonless planet, it was pitch - black. Yuri groped his way to the side of a mecha wreck and quickly disassembled the parts he needed with a mechanical arm. His hard training in the mechanical maintenance training camp made him very familiar with the structures of various mechas. The disassembly work was as skillful as a butcher cutting an ox, fast and leaving no trace.
The two female soldiers were assigned by Yuri to dig a hole. They had to dig a three - meter - deep, five - meter - long, and five - meter - wide hole under the hiding hole. This would become the underground workshop for Yuri to assemble and hide his vehicle.
In the following two days, Yuri dragged the disassembled mecha parts back to the hole bit by bit like a nocturnal mouse. He even found some dry rations, which temporarily solved the problem of the two female soldiers not eating unknown animals or insects.
The work of the two "female mice" was also very effective. They dug the underground cave very beautifully and carefully disposed of the dug - out soil. Even Yuri thought that they were very talented at digging holes.
Using the disassembled armored sound - insulation tiles as the sound - insulation device for the hole, the fat man began to focus on building his vehicle. First, he assembled a cabin that could accommodate three people with an emptied - out Imperial single - soldier mecha cabin. He removed the Imperial small - scale energy engine and installed three powerful federal "Honor 15" energy engines. One of them would provide the energy needed for the energy defense shield.
It should be noted that the energy engines in this era were very different from the various fuel engines before humans entered space. The inventions of high - compression solid - state energy, high - energy - storage batteries, and ultra - light alloy micro - kinetic cabins had brought revolutionary changes to engines. A heavy - duty engine made of ultra - light alloy could be carried away by one person.
The weight of a mecha was all on its armor. No one would be so extravagant as to use expensive super - alloys to make the surface armor of a land - combat mecha. Except for the anti - gravity device, which required a huge amount of energy and had a large volume and weight due to the inability of the current technological level to solve related problems, ordinary power devices had been fully miniaturized, but the power they generated was dozens or even hundreds of times that of before.
Then, Yuri installed all the undamaged instruments he found in the cabin. He still used the control system of the Gachalin Empire's "Holy Armor 22" single - soldier mecha, but he removed the computer and changed all the controls and instruments to manual.
At the roots of the two mechanical legs of the Imperial single - soldier armor, he added six automatic - lifting mechanical legs. When not in use, they could be retracted into the mecha's abdomen and couldn't be seen at all.
The missile launchers on both sides of the mecha, which were like wings, were modified by him into jet - type auxiliary power propulsion devices. This was Yuri's proudest modification.
Anyway, there were no missiles to use, and the exterior hadn't changed at all. It was just that the missiles couldn't be automatically reloaded during combat.
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The energy defense shield gave Yuri a great deal of trouble. This mecha, which sacrificed all its attack capabilities and most of its external armor, would be destroyed with just one shot without the energy defense shield.
However, the special requirements for installing the energy defense shield made Yuri rack his brains. Finally, he managed to form a barely noticeable "little rabbit tail" at the back of the mecha, which was the transmission probe of the energy defense shield.
Not content with just one, Yuri added a backup probe between the two mechanical legs as well.
While installing it, this rascal looked at the two female soldiers with a silly grin. Niya and Meiduo were both angry and amused, and they almost wanted to split this wretched fat man Yuri's head open with an axe to see what was inside.
Soon, this Gachalin Empire "Holy Armor 22" single - soldier mecha, whose exterior had hardly changed at all, was completed. Niya and Meiduo were completely stunned by Yuri's dazzling performance. His imaginative yet reasonable modifications, his deft - handed speed, and his familiarity with the structures of all parts of the mecha made the two female soldiers unable to believe that this fat man was just a mechanical repair soldier. He could be regarded as a mecha expert.
In his hands, modifying a mecha was as easy as a child building blocks. To integrate the instruments and components with completely different concepts from the Empire and the Federation so seamlessly required so much knowledge! This unimpressive - looking fat man was a genius among geniuses.
Of course, Yuri was a genius, but he wasn't a super - genius. It was just that if a genius had assembled countless strange things with these parts during more than twenty escapes, he could become a super - genius.
Yuri wouldn't tell the two female soldiers about these embarrassing escape experiences. He really enjoyed the feeling of being looked at with surprise and admiration. It greatly satisfied his vanity.
The remaining problems were energy and how to find an opportunity to escape.
Beside the former base of the federal army, there was still a large piece of high - compression energy block buried by Yuri.
The burial place was chosen under a tree with its huge roots intertwined and exposed on the ground. Due to the ashes and wreckage left by Yuri's arson all over the former base, the Imperial army's new base naturally avoided this place and chose a dense forest near the former federal artillery base in the south of the jungle, which was convenient for hiding mecha supplies.
At night, Yuri secretly dug out the energy block and the machine gun and let the two female soldiers transport the energy block back to the hole. The fat man decided to create some chaos for the Imperial army to facilitate his escape.
He used a cart with bearings as wheels to pull the machine gun. He carefully avoided the Imperial army's patrols, took a long detour, and his three - step - one - concealment way of moving took him almost half the night. Finally, he arrived at the edge of a small slope at the southwest corner of the Imperial base. He set up the energy - based machine gun, aiming at a row of temporary barracks in the Imperial base.
He installed the simple remote control device he had modified from the remote - sensing device in the Gachalin Empire's "Holy Armor 22" single - soldier mecha, and then filled all the broken energy blocks collected from the wreckage into the energy magazine of the machine gun.
After doing all this, the fat man had an inexplicable excitement like a naughty child after a prank.
"Although I hate killing, I like eating meat more. Although I love peace, my life is more precious. I don't care if all of you die as long as I live." After making sure that the battlefield recorder had recorded his actions, the fat man sneaked back to the hole. Just thinking about the row of barracks targeted by the machine gun made his heart beat faster. "I wonder how many Imperial soldiers can be killed. If I can kill two officers, should I get a promotion?"
When he returned to the hole, it was already four o'clock in the morning, and there were nearly three hours left until dawn. Yuri rested for a while and then decided to act immediately. If he waited any longer and the machine gun was discovered, that would be really unlucky.
He filled the mecha's energy box with the compressed solid - state energy block, and the three of them got into the mecha cabin. Although it was a bit crowded, it didn't affect Yuri's control of the mecha.
Instead, the two hot and alluring female bodies beside him made Yuri feel as if his soul were ascending to heaven.
At the same time as he pressed the switch of the machine - gun remote control, Yuri made the mecha break through the ground. In the distance, the sounds of chaos in the Imperial base barracks and the roar of the machine gun could be faintly heard.