I Became A Mech Soldier After Waking Up in The Future. - Chapter 52

The car set off from Ein Base to the city of Trudheim, which only took an hour and a half to drive. They set off at nine o’clock in the morning, and at half-past ten, they saw the massive city walls of Trudheim.

As soon as they entered the city gate, they saw a black military vehicle waiting for them at the gate with guards and heavily armed soldiers standing beside the vehicle.

The driver, Xiao Wang, slowly stopped the car; a soldier came up to ask questions and then made a gesture for them to go to the sideline.

Soon, a middle-aged man in a military uniform with a graceful bearing came down from the opposite car. With a short beard and holding the saber hanging from his waist, the man looked domineering.

At the same time, Jeanne took the lead in getting out of the car. Keiko and Mike hurried to keep up, and saw Jeanne enthusiastically step forward, stretch out her hand to the man, and say, “Major General Frode, long time no see.”

“Oh! Jeanne, I’ve been waiting for you!” The man smiled boldly and then held Jeanne’s hand.

After Frode and Jeanne greeted each other, Frode then noticed Keiko’s presence. He looked at her carefully and suddenly asked

“If I’m not wrong, this young’un is the famous Death Reaper, Lieutenant Keiko Lee.”

“Well, Major General has good eyesight. Lieutenant Lee, come to greet Major General,” Jeanne beckoned Keiko to come closer.

Keiko took two steps forward, stood at attention and saluted, and then replied, “Cadet Keiko Lee, reporting to the Major General!”

“Okay! I like a young talent like you!” Frode laughed and patted Keiko’s shoulder fiercely.

Despite the toughness of her body, she still felt slightly hurt by the sheer strength of Major Frode, which astonished Keiko a little bit. Seeing the surprised expression on Keiko’s face, Major General Frode gave her a mischievous grin and then returned to Jeanne.

“Let’s go to the city wall. By the way, are you still afraid of high place?” asked Frode.

“It’s alright, Major General, it’s only a city wall, it won’t get in the way,” Jeanne replied indifferently.

Keiko honestly wanted to retort to Jeanne’s baseless confidence, but she was more interested in what Major General Frode said. ‘Going to the city wall?’ Keiko suddenly became excited.

Since Keiko came to this world, she had been very impressed by the miraculous and magnificent infrastructure here. Now that she had the opportunity to go to the city wall, she won’t miss the chance to look at it closely and experience it for herself.

And she was also slightly bothered by Jeanne and General Frode’s conversation. Although Keiko still didn’t know what they were going to do, looking at Major General Frodele’s appearance, it seemed that there was something urgent that required Jeanne to solve.

‘Could it be that there is something wrong with the city walls?’ Keiko became more confused, ‘But, why Jeanne, though? It doesn’t like the scope of her job.’

With the doubt lingering in her mind, Keiko followed the group into the elevator, and then what she saw next startled her.

“It’s huge…”

The outdoor elevator was as spacious as somebody’s living room. 80 people might be able to squirm their way in, and it won’t be enough to ring the overweight alarm.

When the elevator ascended the city wall, Keiko was watching the breath-taking scenery in front of her with staring eyes and a gaping mouth.

The dense clouds in the sky were much thinner at the end of the day, and sunlight scattered from the gaps in the clouds.

She looked at the expansive moat beneath the city wall, the passing ships sailing through the canal looking no bigger than the size of her thumb.

There were birds flying playfully nearby, so close that they seemed to be able to reach out and catch them. They hovered above Keiko’s and the others’ heads for a while, then turned around and flew in the direction of the Tower of Babel.

A jarring feeling loomed in her heart as she glimpsed at the overwhelming sight of the tower piercing through the sky like a spear, seemingly trying to split it open. She couldn’t point her finger on what she felt, but by no means was it a pleasant feeling.

Ahead, Jeanne walked side by side with Major General Frode, who led the way while slightly complaining, “This problem has been giving me a headache for a long time. You’re one of the smarter people I know. What do you think I should do to fix it?”

“Hehe, Major General, you’re not the only one plagued by this problem but so did the entire Federation. If I have a solution, I would have proposed it a long ago. I’m afraid I can’t help you this time,” Jeanne smiled wryly and couldn’t help but ask, “This problem has been around for many years. Although it has not been solved, it is not a particularly big problem. Why are you so anxious?”

“A survey data from several field base stations in the northwest was sent to me two days ago saying that an irregular weather pattern had been detected all across the Himalaya, and I’m afraid that we would soon face the coldest winter we’ve ever known after the apocalypse,” Frode sighed deeply. “You among all people should be clear about how the delicate balance between Zergs and Humanity is only sustained because there was still enough territory on Earth for both of our race so we rarely did a full-scale war against each other for territory or resource, but the appearance of cold winter this time most likely will disrupt those balance.”

General Frode cast his sight at the dense jungle in the distance and turned his body around, looking at the direction of the Trudheim City with a solemn look and continued, “And once this balance is broken, the Zerg will soon attack humans, searching for food and seedbeds for their eggs. When the time comes, the first place that will feel the brunt of it is, without a doubt, Trudheim. If we can’t solve this problem before the inevitable comes, I’m afraid there’ll be a large number of humans who will be sacrificed this year, which is something no one wants to see.”

Jeanne nodded in understanding and then replied: “I understand, Major General. I’ll try my best to coordinate this matter with the technical department. I hope we can find a solution soon.”

“Hahaha, I can only rely on you, young people, now. Those old fogeys at the Academy Institute are not reliable. In the end, I can only put my trust in you and the technical department.”

Keiko was at a loss when she heard their conversation from behind and couldn’t figure out what problems Frode wanted Jeanne to help him solve.

However, as her footsteps went on, she soon saw many huge mechanical arms appearing on the edge of the city wall, railing thick steel cables and hanging them all the way to the bottom of the city wall.

‘What are they doing?’ Keiko watched them with a curious gaze.

“This thing is really inefficient. I’m afraid it can only carry at most two mecha simultaneously and it will take as long as five minutes each,” Jeanne criticized, “The city wall is too high and the mecha is too heavy. It’s really difficult to deploy the mecha in the case of an emergency. Although the wall was equipped with heavy armament, their firepower was limited; it couldn’t even deal real damage to Zergs. If you don’t rely on the mecha, once the Zerg stack the insect ladder, they could easily cross the city wall and invade the city. By then, the consequences would be disastrous.”

The inefficiency of the mecha’s deployment outside of the city was indeed a big problem. When the city wall was built, mecha technology was only in its budding stage, so the city wall’s blueprint didn’t take this problem into consideration.

By now, this problem had taken root and couldn’t easily be solved. Whether it was to increase access in and out of the city wall for the mecha or to transport the mecha by other means, there would always be a big possibility of accidentally damaging the defensive system of the city wall itself.

Jeanne raised her hands, looked into the distance, and said, “Our only option is to increase the firepower attack of the city wall’s defensive weapon. Transporting the mecha to the top of the wall will be the next best choice, even so, it’s still pretty difficult to do it.”

“My brother seems to have mentioned it to me once, saying that he is currently researching a new weapon, a long-range anti-Zergs weapon that could be installed in the city wall. I will contact my brother and give you an answer as soon as possible.”

Frode nodded and expressed gratitude to Jeanne, “Thank you, Jeanne. If it weren’t for you and your brother, I don’t know what to say anymore.”

Jeanne laughed and said, “Major General is joking. My brother is a well-known science freak; he always thinks of something that other people wouldn’t.”

“Eh~ How can a boorish person like me fathom the mind of a genius?” Frode replied, then burst out laughing.

The two chatted and laughed for a while until Frode suddenly raised another topic.

“Actually, there’s another matter that has quite annoyed me recently.”