Chapter 223 04.0222: "Little Secret"

While waiting for the enemy to take action, Horatio and his allies were not idle, and were busy with various tasks.

Everyone seemed to have endless things to do: telegrams from higher authorities, intelligence on new cult strongholds, supply transfer orders to various locations, and the Hell's Vanguard troops that returned from time to time with a bloody smell. They had a rare opportunity to experience the endless busyness of the Ministry of the Interior's clerks, who were like spinning tops.

But Horatio finally got some good news in the midst of his busy schedule:

The Hell's Edge troops received equipment upgrades and new reinforcements.

Click——

After the steam from the scalding fire dissipated, Horatio walked down from the assembly table in the preparation room.

Father Ratti looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction.

"It will take some time to repair your 'Glorious' Power Armor. For now, please allow me to introduce you to my experimental masterpiece, which I call the 'Triumphal General' (Imperado) Model Officer Power Armor."

"So does it have any special design, ma'am?" Horatio asked as he looked at the dark blue slim armor on his body that resembled the full-body plate armor of a knight in the Renaissance.

He was very curious about where Lati got so many creative ideas.

This set of power armor has the shadow of the battle sister's power armor.

But the angular parts and the style of the paintings were different from the imperial armor he had seen before.

Maybe she got some kind of STC like the Necromunda, and happened to meet a Hell Soldier who needed equipment replenishment and served as her experimental guinea pig.

[Abyssport is a mysterious man-made planet. Could it be that she dug up some dark technological relics from somewhere underground?] Horatio pondered.

But overall, this set of power armor looks strong and solid, giving people a sense of security.

The matching helmet has triple-defense functions and can be used for combat in a void environment.

The top is decorated with a Minerva-style vertical crown of blue horsehair, and inside the crown is an advanced signal receiving device and a backup energy battery for the helmet accessories.

If he didn't want to wear a helmet, she would considerately add a red satin belt for him to show his officer status so that his soldiers could quickly recognize him from the crowd.

“Of course there are many special features. First of all, I strengthened its comprehensive protection capabilities and control sensitivity.

In view of the fact that your naval officers generally have neural plug sockets from the back of their heads to their spines, I have specially developed a set of miniature mental control devices that "borrow" from the Mechanicus Knights.

Now, your neural plug can not only be used to command naval warships, but also connected to this power armor to assist you in maneuvering.

Although it is not as sensitive as the black shell of the Astartes, the response speed is 79% faster than the standard model force feedback power armor. "

As she spoke, she casually waved her right hand, and a mechanical servant dressed as a maid suddenly jumped up and pounced on Horatio with fierce and swift movements and no mercy.

As soon as Horatio made a slight move to dodge, the power armor wrapped around him reacted through his thoughts and moved his body, accurately avoiding the knife that was swinging towards his throat.

After missing the first attack, the robot servant stepped forward and launched a series of attacks, each of which was fatal. He retreated and dodged twice in succession, and finally grabbed the robot servant's arm at an even faster speed and threw it to the ground.

This sudden test episode made him feel that his movements were much faster than usual.

"You see, the effect is immediate." Father Ratti smiled very sweetly, clapped his hands slightly and said:
"Secondly, it is a command officer model, and the communication command array it carries can effectively resist 800% of known interference sources within a diameter of 80 meters.

The data board on the arm is macro-programmed. I have deduced and programmed the common commands you may use, which can help you issue deployment orders quickly.

The data systems of other people's power armor will be automatically integrated into the local area network built by this set of Impalado officer power armor. You can use this data board to check the status of all nearby action teams that can transmit network signals normally.

A special multifunctional servo skull can be installed on the top of the rear power backpack and charged. After release, it can help you detect the enemy situation, and can also serve as a signal transfer station to expand the coverage of the local area network.

You can even use the laser hidden in its mouth to secretly shoot something down.

For example, if you surrender and have to drop all your weapons, you can still use the neural plug to control this skull to shoot your enemy from behind.

Father Ratti rolled his eyes:
"Then, for your personal modification, I specially removed the matching armor from the palm to the forearm of your right hand, so that your Iron Hand can be directly exposed and continue to play its role."

Her smile became sweeter, and her eyes showed undisguised hunger: "After all, you will use this prosthesis often, right?"

"What do you mean? Have you heard anything about my prosthetic limb?" Horatio suddenly became alert and his tone sank.

He thought of what Inquisitor Ravenno had said, and he also knew that the Iron Hand passed down from Inquisitor Eisenhorn had a complicated origin.

Now that I think about it, those vague and mysterious words that Father Lati said before seemed to be a test, as if she knew something.

"Oh my, how can you suddenly treat a lady who is helping you wholeheartedly with such a cruel attitude?" Father Latti quickly showed an innocent expression, pouted his pink and clear lips, and wrinkled his little face slightly, looking aggrieved.

But Horatio knew that she was an old actress and could act anything very well.

"What do you know about this iron hand? There's no one else here anyway." Horatio simply ignored her performance and went straight to the point.

He also wanted to know what secrets were hidden in the "steel fingers" that he had since he came into this world.

"It's nothing, but who would attach armor to a prosthetic limb made of fine gold? Isn't this a waste of weight?"

Father Latti raised his eyebrows, tilted his head in ignorance, and said something that sounded very reasonable.

She went on: "I really want to study your arm, but you haven't given me the chance yet."

After saying that, her beautiful face, which was dripping with moisture, began to smile.

"As a reward for helping you, when you are free for a while, how about you remove this arm and let me study it?"

"No! No way!" Horatio refused firmly.

Inquisitor Ravenno specifically instructed us to keep it secret, so how could we just dismantle it and let people study it?

If she ran away with her "Steel Finger", the Milky Way is so big that it might be impossible to find her.

[Be careful to identify fraud!] Having known anti-fraud in his previous life, he crossed his hands in front of his chest and firmly expressed his resistance.

"Why?!" Father Lati's aggrieved expression returned to his face.

"It's just an ordinary prosthetic limb. And, looking at its structure, if you want to remove it, you might have to amputate it."

"But I can use ..."

"Well, Father Lati, thank you for your help, I will bring you some good things as a reward in the future.

But forget it, please don't mention it again. OK?" Horatio also responded to her acting and comforted her in a child's tone.

The skin on Father Lati's face changed from a sad face pretending to be cute to a smile that looked cold and scary. He said:

"Never mind, Mr. Horatio, you will ask me to help you study the mystery of your arm one day.

For our current relationship, it is a bit too fast to open up to this extent, so please continue to keep it a secret as firmly as you did today when facing other people's requests~"

This mature and beautiful woman, with both natural and mechanical beauty, walked closer, and Horatio could smell her signature, strange, mechanical fragrance.

Her tender red lips slightly opened: "Because, this is our little secret~"

Letty's mature voice was as delicious and tempting as fine wine that had been stored in the cellar for decades. The slender hand that she stretched out to Horatio was with the back of her hand facing up, and the skin on it was delicate and moist, and it was completely impossible to tell that it was a layer of artificial bionic skin.

"..." Horatio didn't know what to say for a moment.

These ambiguous words could easily lead to misunderstanding, as if he and she were secret lovers who had already slept together.

He checked Ratti's background and found no problems.

Inquisitor Ravenno also investigated and found no problems.

But why does Father Latti give people the feeling of a vicious female villain in a novel in the previous life?

It would be better to say that this sense of déjà vu is so strong that it seems deliberate. After all, it is impossible for a villain to expose such a malicious temperament so obviously.

It was as if she was silently warning Horatio with her actions - 'Protect your secret, or you will die without a burial place.'

[Is this all just her way of testing whether I keep my mouth shut?] Letty's mysterious words and actions caused Horatio to speculate a lot.

Horatio raised an eyebrow, and in response he gentlemanly lifted her hand, kissed the back of it, and calmly replied, "No problem, ma'am. This is our little secret, and I will never let anyone else touch it."

"That's it, Mr. Horatio. 'May the owl of Minerva protect you.'"

The goddess smiled charmingly, and after saying something confusing, she twisted her round buttocks wrapped in the red holy vestments and walked to the data analysis table to make the final adjustments to Horatio's power armor.

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