Its size... Mercer thought back carefully, it seemed smaller than the 'Artificial Vajra' that David installed in the anime.
He settled down, patiently waiting, while V, Rebecca, and Qiwei were busy outside until dawn, finally driving back to the base in a small truck, exhausted.
Just as they entered, Rebecca saw Mercer standing at the back door waiting for them and yawned: "We've got the stuff, why are you still awake..."
Mercer smiled, "I've already woken up. Put the stuff in the workshop on the first floor, and you all go get some sleep."
V smirked and said, "See? This guy can lie without even blinking now."
"Who doesn't know that you have just three sets of clothes, changing one each day..." Rebecca muttered, noticing Mercer was still wearing yesterday's clothes, knowing he hadn't slept all night.
Mercer blinked: "Alright, I'll improve next time."
"The stuff isn't going anywhere, are you planning to stay up all night researching it?" V said irritably, as she and Rebecca started unloading the items from the small truck.
The exoskeleton armor inside was packed in a box with partitions to avoid being detected by the scans at the entrance of Dog Town.
The strength of these two women was enough to outmatch Mercer, and he didn't intend to lend a hand, just watched them place the equipment in the first-floor gear room, then urged, "Go to sleep, the both of you."
"Don't study too late, take some time to nap, there's a notebook with it, which seems to be the armor's user manual." V yawned, knowing she couldn't persuade Mercer, so she simply went down to sleep leisurely.
Rebecca thought about it, fetched the notebook for him, and also placed a can of coffee next to him: "I'm going to sleep first, don't stay up too late."
"Thanks a lot." Mercer turned and smiled at her, at that moment already deftly opening the box.
In front of him appeared Arasaka's experimental exoskeleton armor.
This was a very sleek tight-fitting humanoid armor, and to Mercer, it seemed the design concept of this equipment might have referenced part of Adam's Hammer.
Only that Adam's Hammer turned his entire body mechanical, while this exoskeleton armor seemed more like making his equipment into an external wear version.
In terms of appearance, Mercer thought it looked a bit like the gorilla armor from "GANTZ".
The pure black humanoid mech's helmet was a full-face covering. Mercer dismantled it for a look, inside was something resembling a knock-off Zeiss multifunctional sight, along with a brain-computer interface cable.
He picked up the laptop Rebecca placed beside him, checked the data inside, and immediately understood the specific parameters of this armor.
This exoskeleton requires a brain-computer interface cable to use, in a sense referencing the control method of the Demon Lizard Armored Vehicle, using the brain-computer interface to directly connect to the helmet, and then controlling the exoskeleton's movements through this advanced technology helmet's built-in computer.
The head armor carried a targeting module which, when linked via the brain-computer interface, could be used with the user's Sianwistan, Synaptic Acceleration, and Krenzikov neural acceleration implants with low latency.
The built-in computer would also calculate high-risk targets, bullet trajectories, analyze enemy weaknesses, and monitor the state of both the wearer and the equipment in real-time.
Both arms were equipped with a somewhat sci-fi 'miniature gravity alteration experimental prototype machine,' capable of creating a circular magnetic wave within a 5-meter range.
Mercer carefully read the data, at full power, this thing could generate a 2-meter diameter circular gravity wave, not only capable of creating a gravity wave to attack enemies.
But also triggering an opposing massive magnetic attraction force that could directly draw firearms from enemies approximately 50 meters away.
And since this equipment is an exoskeleton device, it can't fully match the speed of Sianwistan, so it's also fitted with four small hovercar-like compressed propulsions, achieving 0-100 acceleration in just 1.75 seconds with a top speed of 261 KM/H.
These four propulsions were positioned two at the shoulders and two at the feet, giving a bit of a mini-Gundam feel.
On paper, if the stats aren't inflated... dealing with the Demon Lizard up front wouldn't really be hard.
Mercer carefully went over the usage data many times, finally, gave a cold smile.
"They didn't write anything about side effects... yet supplied an entire box of immune agents."
Mercer walked to the armor's side. This equipment couldn't be worn alone; someone was needed to help install it. He thought for a moment and simply took off the helmet to put it on his head, then plugged in the cable.
Just upon plugging in, Mercer felt his cooling implants at his back subconsciously open slightly.
He directly activated the armor without wearing it, stood beside the mech, trying to control the exoskeleton with the helmet.
"Oh... so this is what it's waiting for."
Mercer instantly understood the exoskeleton's problem — great performance, powerful firepower, aesthetically pleasing design and metrics, but terribly difficult to operate, with a huge neural load.
Firstly, this exoskeleton used a Centaur-like exoskeleton driving device; aside from brain-computer interface command control, it also assisted force based on the wearer's limb movement trajectory.
But the drawback of this operation mode was that the speed of auxiliary force had latency.