Chapter 193
Jiang Yunu's question was answered six days later.
At that time, she had ended her short weekend relaxation at Pei Ya's house, and at the end of the new week, she stepped onto the competition stage again and won another victory in the "Challenge Cup" school competition.
Yes, in the third game of the third round of the school competition, Jiang Yunu won again.
Two days of rest did not completely relieve Jiang Yunu's confusion, but at least she could cheer up and continue to participate in the competition.
Her opponent was her senior schoolmate who had successfully been selected as a double teammate at the end of the second round of the competition - Ulena, an active member of the Golden Uriel Academy team and the team's wartime technical equipment operator.
Jiang Yunu had not yet entered the second grade, and she had not yet taken any courses related to wartime equipment. However, she had of course already connected to the school's electronic library and downloaded materials for advanced courses using her student privileges.
But reading the information and the actual experience are still very different.
"Those responsible for operating technical support equipment in a special ability team are more conspicuous than those in other positions." Wulaina taught Jiang Yunu during the pre-battle preparations. "If you were to ask which position in a special ability combat team is easiest to identify, it would definitely be us 'technical equipment operators.'"
Jiang Yunu asked curiously, "Because people like my senior who do technical support and equipment operation must wear a pair of half-finger leather gloves that are convenient for mechanical operation?"
Ulaina grinned at her. "Very good, you grasped the key point of 'observing personal equipment,' but it's not enough, because the equipment element you grasped is not the most conspicuous one."
Ulaina patted a metal box standing beside her. It looked like a music box for some long and narrow musical instruments. It had a delicate and slender elegance. Its height was about a little below the senior sister's waist. The area in contact with the ground was not large, but it seemed to be quite heavy and self-reliant. It was stable even when standing alone next to Ulaina's legs.
"Have you seen a battle box?" asked Ulaina.
Jiang Yunu shook his head honestly: "First time seeing you."
"Then you must take a good look." Ulaina's eyes lit up, like a child who finally found an opportunity to show off her treasure to others, and her tone became even more excited. "This is my best partner, my soul mate, my love!"
The senior student was generous in praising her combat box. Before opening the box, she stroked the outer wall of the box as if she was caressing her lover.
Jiang Yunu did not act rashly.
When faced with something completely new and something she had never encountered before, she couldn't help but watch it in a relatively still state, wanting to understand and explore every bit of it as much as possible.
That combat box that looked like a guitar case must have used some kind of space folding technology, or the entire box might be made of deformable materials. It looked slender and delicate, but under Ulaina's operation, its shape changed in the blink of an eye, and the box extended outward smoothly.
This battle was more like a training match than any of the previous ones.
"If you see the opponent put the transformed combat box on the ground and keep it connected to the ground, then you must be careful. At this time, the box is in the 'ground auxiliary state'." Ulena explained while fighting.
The deformed combat box, whose bottom seemed to be welded to the ground, had turned into a ground turret, with a medium-caliber long barrel extending from the front end, and energy light flickering deep in the bottom of the barrel.
--red.
That is the color that only the fire elemental ability should have.
Jiang Yunu: "Fire element?"
Jiang Yunu moved flexibly to avoid the point where the moving cannon barrel was aiming at him, while muttering to himself in confusion.
Because in her impression, Ulaina should be an earth-type mutant.
An elemental glow different from the other party's own elemental power lit up on the senior student's device.
Even though she was halfway across the arena, Ulaina seemed to have heard Jiang Yunu's question, or perhaps she saw a clue on the face of this white-haired schoolmate who was always open about her feelings.
"Our combat boxes are different from elemental weapons. The boxes themselves are 'attributeless'."
It was unclear how Ulena operated, perhaps just a gesture or a thought on her part, and the "barrel-shaped" combat box laid on the ground immediately opened fire, and a fiery red energy beam shot out from the barrel at a rapid speed.
Jiang Yunu had predicted this and quickly withdrew from the latest point.
Amid the gentle sizzling sound of energy beams burning the tabletop, Ulaina continued her explanation methodically, "An attributeless combat box isn't like an elemental weapon, relying entirely on the user's own abilities to activate it. Instead, it can be powered directly by the crystal cores of intermediate-level or higher elemental beasts, using the refined crystal cores as the device's battery."
If elemental weapons are more about combining weapons and psychics into one, and the relationship between weapons and users is a "1+1>2" combat partnership, and high-level weapons even have a chance of counter-damaging users whose talent levels do not match, then the combat box is relatively more approachable.
For technical operators, the combat box has lower requirements for the operator's own ability level, and does not pursue the effect of "1+1>2". The more carefully it is made and the higher the level of the crystal core filled in it, as well as the operator's systematic training and operational skills, the combat box can honestly exert its due effectiveness and power.
Jiang Yunu dodged an energy bombardment. She could already guess that this combat box must be filled with fire element crystal cores.
"But the shortcomings of using combat boxes in combat are also obvious," said Ulena.
The senior student did not directly explain the specific shortcomings of using the combat box, but only left a question for Jiang Yunu to think about and understand on his own in subsequent battles.
Jiang Yunu also successfully discovered the answer on his own -
【not enough】.
The combat shortcomings of the combat box can be summed up in one word: "not enough".
Crafted from transformable materials and folding technology, the Battle Box is truly an ingenious and versatile weapon. While in "ground mode," it can function as a mobile ground turret, a ground magnetic field disruptor, or even temporarily grip the ground to erect a defensive wall, creating a mobile fortress. It can also be unlocked into "portable mode," shrinking its overall size to become a handheld, shoulder-fired orbital energy cannon. A miniature supply pack is hidden under one of its transforming modules, and it can even swap crystal cores during battle, refreshing its "battery" and instantly adjusting the elemental energy output!
However, despite its ever-changing forms, it is difficult to conceal the fact that the upper limit of each of its forms is too low.
The ground artillery is impressive, but in terms of the energy intensity of a single shot, it is not as good as a charged attack from a psychic of the same level; the defensive wall looks solid at first glance, but if it withstands continuous attacks from the opposite side for more than three times, cracks will be visible on the outermost barrier; and the shoulder-fired railgun is even faster, and a single energy shell has little power. As long as the opponent moves fast enough, it will be like some kind of human outline artist, and it will be difficult to hit it.
"Have you discovered its shortcomings?" Ulaina asked Jiang Yunu again when the battle was halfway through.
Jiang Yunu dodged the railgun's pursuit lightly and saw that the combat box had changed into another form in the hands of the senior.
“I found it,” she said. “It’s like a jack of all trades. It does everything, but the longboard isn’t as prominent.”
"Oh, you found me." The senior sister sighed softly, and without hesitation fired another shot at Jiang Yunu.
All technical equipment personnel are undisputed supporting positions in a special combat team.
"We don't have any outstanding strengths. Our function is to respond flexibly and provide immediate support." Wulena said after shooting Jiang Yunu.
If a ground attack is needed, the combat box will start to assist the attack in ground form, conduct interference or supplement firepower; if a mobile pursuit is needed, the combat box will enter the portable mode, carried on the shoulders of the technician and follow the fast-attack teammates to pursue; if supplies are needed, temporary defense is needed, and time is accumulated for others to charge up their big moves, then the combat box will enter the supply or defense state, and all its energy will be used for defensive power supply.
Senior Wulaina has always been in charge of such a position.
While figuring out the senior's specific position and fighting style, Jiang Yunu also clearly realized that she might be about to win this battle.
A standard auxiliary position against a damage position, or a "long-term damage position" like Jiang Yunu, and guided her to understand her own shortcomings. Then, next, unless senior sister Wu Lana is willing to continuously replenish the combat box, otherwise, as Jiang Yunu's offensive continues to rise, Wu Lana's defense will cause the "battery" to be consumed faster and faster, and the consumption rate of her crystal cores will also be significantly increased.
Ulaina finally gave in.
"Your attack is more powerful than I thought." Ulena admitted defeat readily, without any regret or unwillingness on her face.
"My budget for each battle in the intramural competition is capped at three crystal cores," the senior said. "Today, considering you're my opponent, I've already prepared one near-B-grade crystal core."
After the ceasefire, Ulena held her combat box which had been restored to its basic state, touched a certain place on the slender long box with her finger, opened the energy slot filled with crystal core, and showed the empty slot to Jiang Yunu.
"When this 'near-B-grade' crystal core is consumed, I know I will lose this battle today."
The senior student looked at the empty slot and finally revealed a trace of melancholy on her face, but Jiang Yunu saw it and inexplicably felt that the emotion was not directed at her.
Sure enough, the next second, the senior student let out a long sigh.
"We, the technical equipment technicians, are the 'star coin crushers' second only to the main attackers who spend a lot of money to build A-level elemental weapons." Every bit of Ulaina's melancholy was due to her reluctance to part with the star coins.
——They all paid for their crystal cores themselves!
Jiang Yunu won the match against Wulaina. So far, she has won two games in the third round.
Already advanced safely to the fourth round of the "Challenge Cup" school competition.
When she walked down from the arena, Ulaina put away her reluctance to part with the star coins and changed the subject.
"By the way," the senior student asked, "have you first-year students received any mass junk mail recently?"
Jiang Yunu said, "Ah?"
It took only a second and a half for Jiang Yunu to react, and his mind automatically matched "junk mail" with a certain instruction.
She remembered the instructions given by Supervisor Waite in the restaurant that day.
Ulaina said, "Recently, many seniors have received advertising letters containing irrelevant information. They claim to have developed a secret elixir that can help people break through their talent levels and gain power beyond genetic limitations."
Jiang Yunu's pace suddenly slowed down.
Ulaina continued walking forward, and the senior student, who obviously didn't take it seriously, shrugged her shoulders.
"Who would believe such nonsense?"
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