The explosion didn't last long, but the rocks, planks, sand, and debris that were tossed into the air covered the entire field. A giant crater was formed in the middle of the field.
Ding Meng lay half-dead in the crater. He had been blasted into a "black man", and his original appearance couldn't be seen from his body.
When he saw Ruo Lan running over, panting, he immediately got up and yelled, "Isn't this a battle armor?
Why did it self-destruct? "
Ruo Lan became even angrier. "Do you know that if we weren't in the Battlecraft Combat world, you would have been blown to pieces by now?"
Ding Meng was covered in dust like a dog, and black smoke was coming out of his mouth. "What happened?"
Ruo Lan panted heavily, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "I … this is the first time I've seen someone make a battle armor explode on their first try …"
Ding Meng argued, "I didn't give the command to self-destruct. It blew itself up."
Ruo Lan shook her head helplessly. "There's only one possibility. The Black Rock Knight has a capacity of 60,000 points. If your Origin Energy conversion exceeds this threshold, the battle armor will automatically disintegrate. In order to prevent it from falling into enemy hands, the system will automatically activate the self-destruct command."
Ding Meng also shook his head. "This means that the quality of the battle armor isn't good enough. It can't hold up at 60,000 points."
"Only 60,000 points?"
Ruo Lan was so angry that she laughed. "I'm already giving face to the Origin Energy user by setting it at 60,000 points. Which Origin Energy user can instantly explode with 60,000 points of combat power?
Can someone with 60,000 points of combat power still be considered an Origin Energy user? "
"That seems to be the case."
Ding Meng scratched his head and said, "But according to your logic, you shouldn't have let me use this Black Rock Knight. You should have given me a higher-level battle armor, or set the threshold higher?"
Ruo Lan was so angry at Ding Meng's ignorance that she shouted, "Do you think the threshold is set by my mouth?
Let me tell you, the prototype of this Black Rock Knight is the Pioneer First Generation. The military has modified it eight or nine times. The maximum critical value is only 42,000 points. After my modifications, it's already extremely difficult to increase it to 60,000 points. What else do you want? "
Ding Meng's eyelids drooped. "Isn't there a more advanced armor?"
Ruolan said helplessly, "The military only provided a few for this mission, and these are the better ones. Claud's' Thunder Swallow 'is only 40,000 points. Why don't you try swapping?"
Ding Meng muttered, "Sigh, these are all junk for us to use."
"Junk?" Ruolan jumped up again. "Do you know how much this Black Rock Knight costs?"
"How much?" Ding Meng was curious.
Ruo Lan slowly extended four fingers and looked at him with contempt.
Ding Meng hesitated. "Four hundred thousand star coins?"
"Four hundred thousand?"
Ruolan glared at him. "You can't even buy half a helmet with four hundred thousand star coins. The special crystal processors used in the armor are mostly imported from the Federation. The Imperium has almost no technology in this area."
Ding Meng said, "Do you want four million?"
Ruolan took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in her heart. "Four million is only enough to buy half an artificial silver core stone, and the lowest quality one."
Ding Meng was also angry. "Then forty million should be enough, right?"
Ruolan wanted to smash his head with a hammer. "Source core, silver core stone, and crystal processor. These three things add up to more than forty million star coins. Let me tell you the truth. The cost of this Black Rock Knight is four hundred million star coins."
Ding Meng was immediately amused. He couldn't say anything else.
Seeing him like this, Ruolan felt a little better. "Now you know what I'm capable of. Fortunately, you're still able to do this in the server. If you were in the real world, then congratulations. You didn't go bankrupt. You're a billionaire."
Ding Meng couldn't help but slap his thigh. "It's really f * cking expensive."
"It's not that expensive." Ruolan copied him and lowered her eyelids.
This time, it was Ding Meng's turn to jump up. "This isn't expensive?"
"Of course not."
Ruolan waved her hand and the hologram appeared in front of her again. "Your combat ability was 15,000 points during the test, but just now, it exceeded 60000 points. This means that the armor has directly increased your combat ability by four times, right?"
Ding Meng said, "That's about right."
Ruolan began to calculate on the screen. "A combat ability of 60000 points has long since surpassed that of a mid-level Origin Energy Warrior. It usually takes an ordinary person twenty to thirty years to cultivate from the Origin Energy User stage to the mid-level Origin Energy Warrior stage. During this time, you'll have to consume enhancement products, use sensory pods, nutrition pods, purchase cultivation techniques, equipment, and so on. This doesn't even include the cost of studying in various places. There's also the cost of food, clothing, housing, and transportation for the next twenty to thirty years. Even including the cost of picking up girls, finding a wife, and having children … all of this easily adds up to a few hundred million star coins. Don't you think it's expensive?"
"This …" Ding Meng was dumbfounded by her powerful logic and calculation ability. "You … you're really comparable to Little Rascal?"
"What?" Ruolan was furious. "Are you saying I'm Little Rascal?"
"No, no, no." Ding Meng hurriedly waved his hands. "What I'm saying is that you're right. It's not expensive."
It really wasn't expensive. He had experienced it himself. The cultivation of Origin Energy Users was like a bottomless pit. Basically, it was just piling up money. From a time perspective, this armor could save Origin Energy Users a few decades of time.
A few decades wasn't a short time. Even if one had to carry bricks, they could carry a few million pieces. Even if it cost ten tokens per piece, that was still quite a sum.
The two of them argued back and forth on the field. To put it bluntly, it was just that Ding Meng's Origin Energy was relatively too strong for the Black Lava Knight to handle.
Ruolan herself found it quite funny. Other armor users would want their partners to be as strong as possible, but her partner was so strong that he could make the armor explode on his first try. If word of this got out, no one would believe it. They would definitely think that she was bragging.
"Don't tell me that Second Lieutenant Wood and the others won't provide any other armor?" Ding Meng was very unwilling to give up. "It's fine if it's broken, as long as it's better than the Black Lava Knight."
"You have to understand the space station. Planet TT12 is a peripheral planet, and the official ration is pitifully low. The fact that they're giving us students a few broken armors is all because of Colonel Feng. We'll just have to make do with it."
Ruolan was also a little helpless. "Forget it. You should familiarize yourself with the operation. I'll go guide Cloray. Fortunately, this is a good server."
As soon as she finished speaking, another armor box with the "Black Lava Knight" icon appeared on the ground.
"Wait." Ding Meng hurriedly pulled her back. "What if I accidentally explode it again when I practice?"
Ruolan looked at him as if he was a freak. After a long time, she sighed. "Forget it. I'll give you the command. If you want to continue exploding, just summon another one."
Ding Meng was overjoyed. "I can summon it indefinitely?"
"Of course."
Ruolan had a strange look on her face. "The power of the Kejia server is beyond your imagination. You should hurry up and practice the armor. If you can reach 20% proficiency before you leave, I'll think you're pretty good."
Armor proficiency was an extremely important indicator to evaluate the level of the pilot. The reason why the Black Lava Knight had five levels of "Easy, Normal, Difficult, Hell, and Extreme" was actually a corresponding symbol of proficiency.
Easy Mode was actually 20% proficiency, which meant that the pilot was completely familiar with the basic operations of the armor. Normal Mode was 40% proficiency, which meant that the pilot had a good grasp of most of the armor's functions. Difficult Mode was 60% proficiency, which was not a passing level. It meant that the pilot had completely integrated into the armor, truly becoming one with the armor.
Hell Mode's 80% proficiency could no longer be described as a standard. It was a completely different realm. The pilot could perform actions that could not be done in the usual operation introduction of the armor. When extended to actual combat, the performance of the armor had exceeded the system's evaluation of the armor.
As for Extreme Mode's 100% proficiency, it was impossible to reach that level without immersing oneself in the same armor for decades and experiencing thousands of battles.
However, this was also very contradictory, because after a few decades, even the most incompetent Origin Ability users had greatly improved their strength. They no longer needed the low-quality armor from back then, and would inevitably use higher-quality substitutes. Thus, the warframe masters would often tease the soldiers who had reached 100% proficiency: "You shouldn't have a wife, you should have a certain type of armor as your true love."
For beginners, even 20% proficiency required a scientific method and a few months of gradual practice. How long was it until the mission began?
Only a freak like Ding Meng, and because he was in the Kejia server, Ruolan defined Ding Meng as a warframe genius. If he could really reach 20% proficiency, she was sure that she would choose Ding Meng as her lifelong warframe master partner.
"Also, I'll send you the virtual memory of the armor types and other information in a moment. You can slowly learn when you're tired of training." Ruolan left this sentence and turned into light and floated away.
She did not expect a brute like Ding Meng to settle down and learn knowledge and culture. In fact, Ding Meng did not have such an idea. Ding Meng's real idea was to cheat. Now that he was in the Kejia server, it was best not to disturb Little Rascal. He would save the virtual memory first and then wake Little Rascal up in the Sensor Cabin after leaving the server. Little Rascal's replication ability was very powerful. After copying everything, it would be directly injected into the consciousness space and completely absorbed in one gulp.
The only condition for doing this was that it required a high level of brain development. It required a strong foundation of telekinesis, and that would require him to cultivate the "Diamond Astral Technique". However, the "Diamond Astral Technique" was not convenient to meditate in the server.
Thinking of this, Ding Meng felt depressed. When would he be able to successfully construct the sixth origin?
It was like there was a delicious and nutritious loaf of bread in front of you. You couldn't eat it all at once, nor could you leave it uneaten. You had to take a long time to eat it bit by bit without being disturbed by others.
This feeling was really frustrating!