Chapter 388: The Orangutan's New Skill — Ancient Metal Beast Manufacturing
When the regular hexagonal barriers appeared on Mammoth, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and the autonomous mechs, they knew Cheng Tian had returned.
Cheng Tian is back! There is hope!
The allied members, who had been quite fatigued by the wheel battles and encirclement, subconsciously felt a great sense of relief.
Undoubtedly, this was the cohesion a leader brought to the team.
With the appearance of the massive Protective Barrier, large enough to cover the entire front line, their own people and animals also got a moment to catch their breath.
"Change of guard!"
Cheng Tian immediately gave the order, while quickly deploying the Radar.
Facing such a monster siege, the Radar's heavy firepower was superior to other mechs.
The mere appearance of this one King of the Land successfully repelled the small-scale monster siege that had been in a stalemate for a long time.
To be precise, the roar of the cannons abruptly woke up the herbivorous dinosaur alliance, which had been controlled by hormones. After leaving behind a pile of corpses, they chose to halt their offensive and observe from the outside.
And this was, in a sense, a new weakness that emerged after super-powered dinosaurs evolved into intelligent beings.
With intelligence and the ability to think, they also became more adept at seeking good fortune and avoiding disaster. From the perspective of overall threat, they were even less dangerous than their past pure beast forms. At least back then, they wouldn't think about anything, only acting on instinct, and mindless recklessness was actually more suitable for these generally tough-skinned dinosaurs.
Their observation gave Cheng Tian the opportunity to deploy more mechs.
The Brodia, the Metroid, the Gulding, the Elf, Aoko, the Drill Tank, the Batmobile... one mech and battle vehicle after another began to appear on the battlefield.
Not only did the observing herbivorous dinosaur alliance notice this anomaly, but the human groups, large and small, who had just been resisting the invasion together, also began to whisper. The mysterious veil that had never been lifted from the Hammond Innovation Lab clearly became even thicker.
However, they didn't know that Cheng was actually bluffing.
Cheng Tian himself could at most pilot three mechs simultaneously with the help of the mech matrix, or four if you included the autonomous blind sappers. So many mechs and battle vehicles were actually more for show.
If they were facing pure beasts with no intelligence whatsoever, these mechs and battle vehicles would obviously be no deterrent. As long as the other side dared to charge and had enough numbers, then breaking through the defense and smashing the lab fences would be an unstoppable event.
But precisely because they gained intelligence, witnessed the roar of the Radar's cannons, understood how to calculate battle losses and gains, and knew what it meant to value their lives, they instead lost the opportunity to break through the human defenses in one fell swoop.
Accompanied by a long dragon roar, the herbivorous dinosaur alliance, whose hormone control had been shattered by the fear of death, collectively chose to retreat amidst the roar of what appeared to be their leader. Only a few scattered dinosaurs remained on the scene, still lusting after the handsome dragon and beautiful dragon bodies, completely oblivious to other presences.
This sudden siege crisis was resolved.
However, if one were to trace the origin, the source of this dinosaur siege actually lay with Cheng Tian.
The dinosaurs wandering around the lab were killed by the Reds, but a considerable number had accumulated, just enough to hatch new dinosaurs.
According to Cheng Tian's requirements, except for the long-necked dinosaurs of the Diplodocidae family, such as Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus, whose material was not to be used, and the saber-toothed tiger fossil material that might arrive at any time, Uhtan, as the lab's second-in-command, could use all other materials.
Of course, the premise was that Cheng Tian still had money in his pocket.
So, under normal circumstances, the area enclosed by the lab could not accumulate too many neutral dinosaurs with pure bloodlines and healthy bodies. It wasn't that they didn't want to hatch them; it was simply a lack of materials.
However, just four and a half hours ago, a large amount of dinosaur material was suddenly added to the lab's genetic stock.
And these materials were Cheng Tian's harvest from the volcanic region.
After completing the scavenging of the alien base, Cheng Tian did not forget to search the surrounding corpses.
With a simple touch of his hand, the portable lab would automatically decompose and recycle the corpses, turning all the dinosaur corpses that died from trampling, lava, or drowning into inventory materials, and feeding them back to the duplicate lab through sharing.
With enough materials, who could resist not doing experiments?
Thus, the number of neutral dinosaurs hatched by the lab grew, and the concentration and diffusion of pheromones were enough to make the herbivorous dinosaur alliance lose their minds.
This was not speculation, but Uhtan's post-mortem analysis, the judgment that best fit the logical origin of the herbivorous dinosaur siege event.
As a second-in-command and an excellent research ape, the orangutan unhesitatingly took the blame upon himself... and he should indeed bear at least half of the responsibility, after all, he was the one who pressed all the hatch buttons.
"Never mind all that! Come with me!"
However, Cheng merely glanced at the report Uhtan gave him and tossed it aside. Without a word, he pulled Uhtan's hands onto his shoulders and ran out with him on his back.
"BOSS?"
Uhtan was very surprised but did not resist, merely voicing a question through his AI voice.
In fact, Uhtan had a lot of things to deal with at the moment, not only the technical exchange contact with Fessenden but also the large amount of corpse material processing related to the recent battle.
But Cheng Tian made the research ape's eyes glow with fanaticism with just one sentence.
"We found an alien base, and the facilities inside are perfectly preserved. It involves technology related to the deep integration of dinosaurs and machinery. Interested?"
"Please lead the way!"
Just like that, the impetuous and unscrupulous human investor directly dumped the current mess on the half-elf, and ran off with the orangutan on the spot... [Your subordinate "Uhtan" is in a state of insatiable deep learning —]
[By virtue of his "Biological Research Ape" profession and his specialized research direction of "Ancient Biological Gene Fusion," Uhtan has acquired a new skill — "Ancient Metal Beast Manufacturing" — through the analysis and research of the complete facilities left behind by the "Martian Brothers."]
[Ancient Metal Beast Manufacturing: Class A Skill / Lv1, Active Skill. A technology for manufacturing "Ancient Metal Beasts" acquired by the orangutan Uhtan through the analysis and research of alien technology. This technology cannot be upgraded through conventional skill points; it can only be improved by continuously manufacturing excellent "Ancient Metal Beasts."
Uhtan can use ancient creatures as materials to create Ancient Metal Beasts that possess characteristics of both "combat vehicles" and "mechanical creatures." The manufacturing cycle and attributes depend on the materials.]
[Detecting that "Uhtan" is the primary responsible ape of the "Hammond Innovation Lab" —]
[Uhtan can use ancient creatures hatched by the lab as materials to directly manufacture Ancient Metal Beasts.
You need to provide the corresponding Chosen Coins and suitable metal materials.]
[You choose to provide "Klelia Ore" as the current material for Ancient Metal Beast manufacturing.]