"What on earth is this!? Commander, is this the gift you mentioned... this..."
"A fully-covered power exoskeleton, equipped with an MG3 machine gun, as well as an ASG-30 grenade launcher, with 3,500 rounds for the machine gun and 90 rounds for the grenade launcher. There's also a breaching axe for close combat defense, weighing a total of 975 kilograms, with a power source behind sufficient for 72 hours of continuous operation in combat conditions..."
Removing the wooden boards from his workspace, Reno pointed to the power exoskeleton behind him, speaking non-stop, completely unaware of P38's increasingly pale face in front of him.
"But... but this appearance... why does it look exactly like your previous outfit?"
The highly recognizable M35 helmet on top, along with the headgear below resembling a gas mask...
"Oh, you mean this? Originally, I was planning to design a different look, but MDR strongly recommended this appearance, so..."
"MDR!?"
P38's miserable scream pierced through the eardrums of Reno and the others, but the instigator had already fled, taking photos and posting them online expertly!
"Anyway, let's try putting it on first. I've worked hard on this for so many days."
The first sample always takes the most time, but the subsequent power exoskeletons shouldn't be as time-consuming.
"But, but if I wear this, won't nobody recognize me anymore?"
Watching Reno open the entrance to the power exoskeleton, P38 hesitated.
Moreover, the exoskeleton was taller than Reno by almost half a head.
Could she really control this thing with her height of less than 1.6 meters?
Even the palm of its hand was bigger than her head!
"Of course not. Look here, isn't your name written here, P38, along with a silhouette of your imprinted weapon? Plus, there's only one of these power exoskeletons at home right now. Even if someone can't recognize you, you can tell them through the communication channel."
Bang! Bang!
Reno tapped on the shoulder armor of the power exoskeleton. "P38" was written on the left shoulder, and her imprinted weapon silhouette was drawn on the right, visible from both front and back.
Indeed, it was recognizable... recognizable as what? You still couldn't see her face!
"Anyway, let's try it on. The external paint and decoration style can be changed anytime. You can change it to whatever you like."
"Well... okay..." Hearing Reno's words, P38 gritted her teeth and stepped into the power exoskeleton using the provided footholds.
As soon as she stepped in, P38 felt a sway under her feet, and the height-adjusting device below immediately pushed her slowly upward until she successfully fastened the fully-covered helmet onto her face.
Reno let go of his hand, watching as the hatch in front of the power exoskeleton slowly closed.
As for the instructions for using this thing, he had already put them into the connection device of the power exoskeleton. As long as their Doll personnel used the dedicated communication channel, all control methods would be immediately transmitted to the neural core through the communication system.
"You can try walking a few steps. Let's skip the weapon system for now; this place doesn't have the conditions." Standing in front of P38, Reno waved to her.
"Okay." P38's crisp voice immediately sounded from the power exoskeleton's sound device.
Upon hearing P38's voice, Simonov frowned, crossing her arms.
"Hmm, I can't help but feel that this voice and this outfit are a bit mismatched, Commander. Shouldn't we replace the external voice with a more mechanical one? It would be more impactful!"
"No! Absolutely not!"
As soon as Simonov said this, the power exoskeleton, which had just taken a step forward, immediately adopted a shy girl's posture, clenching its fists lightly and tapping its feet.
Bang! Crack!
However, with just this light tap, the cement floor of the factory directly cracked open!
Seeing this scene, M1 Garand and the others also twitched their eyes and mouths.
What kind of scene, what kind of feeling... what should they say...
This clumsy and bulky power exoskeleton really didn't match them...
To be honest, even Reno hadn't expected this thing to be able to make such movements before making it.
"What! What's with those expressions!?"
P38 immediately noticed the complex expressions on the faces of the Tactical Dolls. She had been worried about looking strange after putting on this thing, but now she just happened to see the complicated expressions on everyone's faces.
Seeing the power exoskeleton continue to jump around, Reno shivered and quickly spoke up, "Alright! Alright! Stop jumping around! Keep calm! Just walk normally! Don't be so hesitant! It makes your movements look weird!"
After Reno's reminder, P38 finally realized, wearing a pain mask that no one could see, and began to adapt to the power exoskeleton under Reno's guidance.
But there was actually nothing to adapt to. Although it was only connected through the exclusive channel of the communication system, the tactical dolls wasn't surprised by this control method, as their bodies were already mechanical constructs.
Less than five minutes later, P38 was already able to control the power exoskeleton to perform some very agile movements.
Running, sprinting, jumping, rolling, all kinds of tactical movements were easy to perform.
It was just that the flat ground outside the factory suffered. With such a heavyweight here running and jumping around, the originally flat ground turned into a pockmarked mess.
Seeing the agile movements of the power exoskeleton, even the T-Dolls who had initially found it difficult to accept couldn't help but stop laughing and started to seriously consider how they would defeat such an extremely sturdy iron shell if they encountered it.
But after thinking it through and looking down at their own ordinary light weapons, they finally came to a conclusion...
That is, the weapons they had on hand were simply not enough to deal with this guy in front of them!
Unless they brought out the weapons used to attack tanks or armored units, like the RPG-29 that BM59 had been carrying.
But...
P38, wearing the power exoskeleton, did not become heavy and sluggish due to her larger size. Although her speed was slightly reduced compared to being unarmored, it was by no means easy to hit her!
With this level of mobility, she was definitely faster than unmodified high-level handgun tactical dolls!
With super mobility and all-terrain combat capability, plus firepower configuration slightly inferior to an armored vehicle, if they and others were all equipped with this kind of power exoskeleton in the future...
"We'd be invincible! Aah, it hurts!"
MDR, who had quietly returned at some point, holding her phone, had apparently filmed the entire scene.
However, before she could press the send button, she was slapped on the forehead by Reno and had her phone snatched away.