Fifteen minutes later.
Ju Qingmeng sat beside the testing cabinet, lost in thought, her soul seemingly detached.
"Look at your current parameters yourself."
Ren Zhong got up and took a glance.
Brain-Machine Synchronization Rate: 29.99%.
Biological Electric Power: 126.61 kilowatts.
Brain Reaction Index: 349.52.
Physical Comprehensive Index: 126.69.
He calculated the time in his mind, comparing the data.
It’s now the 28th day; except for the soaring Brain Reaction Index, the other two indicators haven’t caught up to the levels of the 45th day last time.
"Well, it’s alright."
Ju Qingmeng angrily pointed at the display, "You call this alright? Look at the Brain Reaction Index! You’re only at the Second Level! How is your brain reaction so fast? Aren’t you afraid of overloading your brain? Do you ever feel suddenly very tired and then mentally fuzzy?"
Ren Zhong recalled for a moment, "Honestly, no."
"Forget it, forget it. I’m really sleepy right now. I’ll head back to the lab first. I need to take a quick nap for ten minutes, and then I’ll help you reassemble the armor and install the amplifier. I need a rest first, can’t afford to make a mistake."
"Alright, thanks for the hard work."
Three minutes later, back in the lab, Ju Qingmeng fell asleep almost instantly on the flat bed.
She slept sweetly, a smile she couldn’t hide gracing her face.
Though hope remained slim and the road still long, she could clearly see Ren Zhong sprinting towards his goal.
He was forging ahead, so too was she.
The once elusive glimmer that could change fate was gradually becoming a bright blue sun hanging high above.
After she fell asleep, Ren Zhong didn’t leave but stood in front of the workbench with his hands behind his back, staring at the multitude of parts, numbering over a thousand, lost in thought.
His gaze focused on that technologically advanced tactical helmet.
Aerodynamically perfect in its streamlined design, slightly protruding at the back, ending in a tiny sharp tail.
Within that small tail was a palm-sized box.
The box was made of a material with ultra-high strength and toughness, as well as superior radiation resistance and heat insulation.
The most crucial and precise high-tech module in the Third Level Exoskeleton, with the auxiliary brain Crystal Chip, auditory and visual nerve link Resonator, all housed in this box.
A Second Level Mechanical Warrior can achieve auditory resonance, while a Third Level warrior possesses both auditory and visual resonance.
This, Ren Zhong already knew.
But it wasn’t until he saw the parameters of this Third Level tactical helmet that he realized the terrifying nature of visual resonance.
When he first operated the Training Armor, commands were sent from the brain, then identified by chips in the armor’s different parts, and further decomposed into sub-commands controlling the armor’s joint structure, eventually forming the desired actions.
The Training Armor and First Level equipment could only read brainwave signals, without reverse input to the body.
Second Level equipment introduced reverse input of auditory nerve signals, mitigating the sense of isolation.
Third Level equipment also added reverse input of visual nerve signals.
The most direct manifestation is the ability to deceive the visual center, creating the illusion of directly projecting augmented information onto the human retina.
Combined with the tactical helmet’s panel assistance, within the same view, one could see more combat auxiliary information like AR graphics, forming a digital battlefield analysis.
For instance, when he fully enabled the Third Level Exoskeleton’s performance, merely glancing at another Mechanical Warrior, the overall performance of the opponent’s armor, including latent damage and cracks in various parts, could be directly displayed on the naked eye as color-coded projections.
When the armor’s omnidirectional information detector picked up threats outside the field of view, with situational awareness ability activated, it could visually mark the threat’s location and distance on the periphery of the view using striking colors.
Third Level warriors could respond instantly, as if having eyes in the back of their head.
This is akin to activating a weakness detection cheat in an online game.
In the 21st century, besides the differences in the aircraft bodies, there was an extremely crucial distinction between fifth-generation and fourth-generation fighter jets: the pilot’s helmet.
A helmet with ultra-high technology content, offering ultra-high stability and more comprehensive features, immensely boosts a fighter jet’s combat capacity, which is unimaginable.
The gap in functionalities between this Third Level helmet and the Second Level helmet before Ren Zhong now is several times larger than that between the helmets of fifth and fourth-generation fighters in the past.
Furthermore, the Third Level Exoskeleton features superior computing power, faster operating speed, and quicker brainwave signal recognition capability.