Chapter 228
Chapter 228: You Will Wear the Suit!
Translator: flycrane01 Editor: Millman97
Yuan Manqiu paused and said slowly, "There are three critical problems that are yet to be resolved .
"First, the technical problem .
"Over the past year, I've done a lot of research and thoroughly studied thousands of designs . Everything is fine, except for the Super Compressed Crystal Reactor, which we underestimated before . "
"The most distinguished characteristic of Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit is its avoidance of using Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures . As a result, its stability and durability are greatly undermined . For other parts, this shortcoming can be fixed by enhancing the structure . But that won't do when it comes to Crystal Reactor .
"Condensing violent spirit energy, as destructive as the vast sea, into a head-size Crystal Reactor while asking it to output spirit energy stably according to the battle status was putting too much pressure on the Crystal Reactor .
"It was simply overwhelming for the common alloy materials . "
"Last time, it was because the Crystal Reactor had a crack and released the extremely-condensed spirit energy that the tragedy happened .
"I haven't figured out how to address this problem yet . If we turn to Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, our cost will increase a lot because they're essential to the Crystal Reactors for most of the crystal suits . Copying them would be contradictory to our original purpose .
"In the days to come, together with other experts, I will try my best to overcome this barrier .
"Li Yao, take this jade slip . All the documents concerning Project Mystic Skeleton are inside . You can see if there's anything you can do when you're free .
"Although you have only just started your career as a Refiner, you always have amazing ideas that are not restrained by the doctrines we live by . Maybe you'll find a new way and shed some light for us . "
Yuan Manqiu then handed over the jade slip with a string of unique 'thought', which is the key to activate the jade slip .
Files of Project Mystic Skeleton were invaluable . Therefore, the jade slip required a special thought to activate it . It also had a self-destruction rune within . Should it be lost, Li Yao could erase all the information easily using telekinesis .
Seeing that his professor trusted him so much as to share all of her top secrets with him, Li Yao felt warm in heart and nodded his head solemnly .
Yuan Manqiu continued .
"The second problem is money .
"When I said that the funding is adequate, I was referring to the rebuilding work for the Refining Department . Actually, the school had different opinions about Project Mystic Skeleton . "
She paused and laughed self-deprecatingly . "It is understandable . I'm afraid that no one else in the entire Star Glory Federation is a hundred percent confident that Project Mystic Skeleton will succeed apart from the two of us .
"The budget that the school allocated is for recruitment of experts, purchase and modification of the floating mountain, and the education of students . Very little is at our disposal . However, by my estimation, to complete Project Mystic Skeleton, the money we need ranges from 5 billion to 10 billion . "
Li Yao nodded, not surprised by the figure .
Although the cost of a Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit had been claimed to be under 100 million, that was only so during mass production . Reinventing the first Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit required much more than that because of the preliminary investments, the experimental cost, and the research funding .
Sometimes it would cost 3 to 5 million, or in some cases even 10 million, to conduct a single experiment .
And dozens of experiments were not unusual to perform optimizations .
On the market, one crystal suit specially designed for Cultivators of Core Formation Stage and Nascent Soul Stage would cost more than 10 billion . It was quite amazing that the entire budget for the research of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was controlled within 10 billion .
Yuan Manqiu continued, "The technical and money problems are directly related . It is because we can't fix the issue regarding the Crystal Reactor that the investors feel inconfident .
"As long as it is fixed, with our current funding, we will be able to build a prototype, even though there's nothing but our bare hands .
"Everything will be easier when we have the prototype . Not only will the school increase our budget, we will also be able to look for investments from celebrities and the military . I'm sure someone will be interested . When that happens, getting 10 billion wouldn't be difficult, even 50 billion would not be a dream either . "
Yuan Manqiu stopped again and eyed Li Yao carefully . "The last and most important question is who will wear the prototype of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit?"
Li Yao realized that it was indeed a big problem .
The prototype would have a lot of defects and deeply buried problems . Not everyone would have the capability to wear it . The wearer must be an experienced Exo[1] who was also good at refining in order to detect the problems during the trial .
They were similar to the test pilots in Li Yao's previous life who were a hundred times more skilled than ordinary pilots .
Yuan Manqiu shrugged and smiled bitterly .
"I can't find a suitable candidate to wear the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit . After all, the failure last time is already common knowledge to everyone in the entire federation . The Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, a cursed crystal suit that is doomed to explode, has killed hundreds of people even before it is fully developed .
"As such, which elite Exo would be willing to risk their life to wear a prototype Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit that might be full of bugs?
"If we increase the reward, some desperados among the ordinary Exos might be interested . But these people would never have received professional training in refining . They wouldn't be able to describe the problem clearly even if they meet one . Also, many things in the prototypes are secrets of Project Mystic Skeleton which I don't want to reveal to outsiders . "
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