As the enemy sniper tried to search for Jin once more hoping that he had not made it to the house, Jin was already at the side of the window waiting for an opportunity to hop on her. Lark and Kurt thought that he brought a pistol for that reason.
Easy manoeuvrability allows the user to have a quick shot and retract even though it has risk in doing so. But what Jin did threw them off their chairs. Instead of what they thought of him pulling his FN Five Seven out to shoot, Jin grabbed the rifle barrel and lugged it outwards.
This caused the sniper enemy to be pushed forward out to the window grill where Jin could safely insert a bullet into her neck. That was when Raymond found that it was someone familiar and started to ask its own AI assistant to track where he had seen that woman before.
“Private Tellie. Grey Bear Squad. Speciality: Not Known. Insufficient information due to lack of achievements.” His AI assistant said and that was when the group realised that they were fighting with clones of Jin’s Squad Members.
“Heh. How does it feel to be shut down by a lowest ranked sniper?” Kurt asked Lark as he used his elbow to nudge him.
“Those movements are not of a private sniper. Ehh …perhaps it’s just a clone with her face on. We all know that his team members are still at the repair bay at the basement, right Raymond?” Lark asked and Raymond made a quick call to the engineer belonging to the Archduke’s team to check if they were there repairing them.
“Yes, Sir. All accounted for at the repair bay. None of the Grey Bear War Maidens is active at the moment and we are doing maintenance for them as we speak.” The engineer reported but was curious why Raymond was so concerned about their presence at the repair bay.
“It’s nothing, just want an update. We are still discussing with him on what had happened.” Raymond brushed off the topic and the engineer sighed.
“Then you better tell that idiot of a commander to take it easy on the Mechanoids. It seems like he had been using the tactical system and he had been pushing them to their maximum limit for the days he had seen action.” The engineer commented.
“The Tactical System?” Raymond was curious who would use such a system at this time and age where the ever evolving current technologies had rendered it somewhat useless even though it was attached to all Mechanoids for coordination purposes.
“Aye, you know we can sometimes push the War Maidens into overdrive by using certain override codes that had been embedded into them?” The engineer said and Raymond gave a muffled acknowledgement.
“He had placed those codes something akin to a repeat mode. The codes were continuously input into his War Maidens non-stop during the fights.” He complained.
“Won’t that cause the War Maidens to break down after several uses of the codes? I remember the latest generation of War Maidens were not able to handle more than three override codes and a rejection system had been installed to ensure that they could still work.” Raymond found this to be a startling discovery and had to step aside from the spectator screen to have a better discussion with his engineer in charge.<.com>
“Generally, yes but for some reason, the codes that Commander had been using were modified codes. It did not override the War Maiden but instead, it was like an injection of programming codes to improve their aim, reflexes and in some way… the overall functions of the War Maiden.”
“As if it was optimising the Mechanoids on the go with the use of the tactical system. And this requires onsite inputs which could not have been done unless he had an AI module that was able to do so.”
“Hmmm… He did say between the lines that he does have a unique module installed and he is showing us a Virtual Space which he wished to use as a business model.”
“Pfft, What can a Virtual Space do? ” The Engineer in charge scoffed at the prospect of using a Virtual Space as a sales item.
“I thought that too at first, but it seems like this is a technology which I had not seen before as well. It’s best that you come up to the interrogation room and checked it.” Raymond said before adding that if he has any experts in the subject of Virtual Space to bring him along as well.
“Alright. Alright. I will come take a look. But other than that, we find no other faults to his Mechanoids… although I am very tempted to steal the codes to see if they really could aid with the programming of our own Mechanoids.”
“Are they that great of a code? Sorry, I do not have knowledge on my part.”
“I am not sure yet. The codes are encrypted and it is not of a standard encryption protocol which made me feel like if I present this to the programming team, they would have an absolute time trying to decode it.”
“Or going crazy attempting to do so.” Raymond chuckled knowing that the engineering team had always given unreasonable requests for the programming team to handle. Even though Rocky isn’t the chief engineer for the Archduke, he was quite a big shot himself being an apprentice to the chief engineer and was slated to be the next one should his mentor quit.
“That is also possible. Sometimes such codes are uniquely to one model but considering that the War Maidens he used are conventional models, there should be no problem finding out if what made those codes tick those War Maidens to have a better overall function.”
“You are talking in the technical realm to me now, please stop. For now, just come out of the repair bay. Thanks, Rocky.” The moment Raymond gave the order and hung up the call, there were exclamations from the bodyguards which caught his attention.
Looks like that Jin had done something ludicrous again.
