CHAPTER 31: CHAPTER 31: THE EVER-GROWING DISK

If that’s the case, then it’s not surprising.

Because even without considering the precision chips, Power Armor contains tens of thousands of components.

As for the Firepower Flying Disc, despite its size, its shell is actually just a few modular big shells, with only about a thousand components internally, aside from ammunition.

At this moment, Jiang Yiyi was dozing off beside him. She hadn’t slept for a day and a night. In the past four hours, she barely dared to blink and focused on helping Yang Yuan memorize the steps to dismantle the Firepower Flying Disc.

Now she finally couldn’t hold it any longer, nodding off while squatting there.

Yang Yuan immediately said, "Yiyi, you should go to sleep too. We’re not in a hurry to set off. Also, have something to eat before you sleep."

Saying this, he took out a piece of dried meat and handed it to Jiang Yiyi.

"Thank you, big brother." Jiang Yiyi became a little more awake and took big bites of the dried meat.

But after just a few bites, without swallowing the meat completely, she started nodding off again.

Yang Yuan picked up the water bag and weighed it, finding there were about two pounds left.

"Here, drink some water."

He fed Jiang Yiyi some water, then carried the little girl into the Safe House and placed her in the small compartment in the middle.

Jiang Yiyi, like Zhao Jiayan, fell asleep as soon as she lay down.

Though Yang Yuan was also very tired, he was the only one awake now, and someone had to keep watch.

He glanced at Zhao Jiayan, seeing she was sleeping soundly with a somewhat pale complexion, so he also fed her some water.

Perhaps due to the extreme fatigue, Zhao Jiayan didn’t wake up, which made him a bit worried.

In the distance, the air distortion was getting more severe. As the sun crept above the horizon, the temperature was rising visibly.

"The Drought Fiend... has brought so much harm!"

Yang Yuan shook the remaining water in the bag, licked his lips, but in the end, couldn’t bring himself to drink it.

He was very thirsty too, but he couldn’t bear to drink the water, as it was reserved for cooling and gaining experience points.

The appearance of the Drought Fiend displaced countless people, causing many to die of thirst and forcing massive migrations.

Yang Yuan’s eyes turned cold: "I must find a way to eliminate the Drought Fiend, or I’ll eventually die of thirst too!"

He settled Zhao Jiayan in place, then entered his small compartment.

"How should I gain experience with this Firepower Flying Disc? Just by flying, or does it need to launch missiles?"

Sitting on the bed in the small compartment, he opened the small door of the Safe House and looked at the disc outside. With a thought, he controlled the Firepower Flying Disc, two meters in diameter and thirty centimeters thick, to rise into the air.

"Let’s fly a bit first. If it can’t gain experience, then I’ll launch a missile..."

Yang Yuan patiently waited, controlling the Firepower Flying Disc to slowly move within a ten-meter range.

About a minute later, the Firepower Flying Disc’s experience increased by one point.

"As long as it flies, it can gain experience?"

He felt a surge of joy.

"How about just hovering? Not moving, just hovering..."

He stopped the Firepower Flying Disc at the small door of the Safe House and waited.

Another minute passed, and the experience of the Firepower Flying Disc increased by one point again.

"Hovering can also gain experience?"

He was delighted.

This way, he could let it hang there to gain experience passively.

Because this Firepower Flying Disc could hover, leaving it suspended without worrying, it wouldn’t fall unless energy was depleted.

Quickly, half an hour passed, and the experience was maxed out.

Yang Yuan eagerly chose to upgrade.

The next moment, a white light emanated from the Firepower Flying Disc, and under his surprised gaze, it slowly grew larger.

That’s right, it grew larger!

This Firepower Flying Disc seemed to upgrade differently than other items.

The white light grew increasingly intense, and the Firepower Flying Disc’s volume expanded.

Finally, ten seconds later, the white light vanished.

By this time, the diameter of the Firepower Flying Disc doubled from an original two meters to a four-meter diameter.

The original thickness of only thirty centimeters now increased to sixty centimeters, over half a meter.

"Wow, a four-meter diameter large disc!"

Yang Yuan looked at this powerful flying saucer with shining eyes:

[Cruise Unmanned Firepower Flying Disc LV.2: 0/60 (Current endurance time 40 hours, ammo capacity 2000, maximum remote control distance 2000 meters, maximum range 1000 meters, maximum speed 210m/s)]

For this level two Firepower Flying Disc, endurance time doubled from its initial status, and the ammo capacity, range, and control distances doubled.

Although the speed didn’t double, it was still significantly improved.

The inability to double the speed might be due to air resistance, since this device doesn’t adhere to aerodynamics at all.

"An upgrade also boosts ammo capacity? The ammo bay is actually full?"

Yang Yuan opened the ammo bay and found that the size of the missiles had doubled.

The original missile model was thirty-two millimeters, ten centimeters in length, now transformed to sixty-four millimeters, twenty centimeters in length.

Naturally, the caliber of the Firepower Flying Disc’s cannon outlet increased accordingly.

"Excellent!!"

Yang Yuan thought with shining eyes: "Will each upgrade double the radius, and eventually make it sky-covering?!"

Besides, with the increase in missile size, their power should also increase, right?

Once the level is high enough, will it be able to kill the Drought Fiend?

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but climb onto the flying disc.

This time, the disc hovered steadily half a meter above the ground without tilting.

Even when he climbed on it and jumped, the disc didn’t wobble, showcasing a very superior balance ability.

"Now it can carry people, no more long treks. Now we pursue the main forces, later they will chase us!"

Yang Yuan eagerly directed the disc to move with him aboard it.

As soon as it left the cooling system’s radiation area, he felt his Power Armor’s temperature rapidly rising, with the virtual panel indicating an external temperature of seventy-one degrees.

"It’s early morning, and temperatures have reached seventy-one degrees. In the afternoon, they’ll definitely climb higher. I must kill the Drought Fiend!"

Yang Yuan’s face darkened, eyes flashing with strong determination as he continued to maneuver the disc within a hundred-meter range.

The disc remained stable, showing no signs of trembling or tilting, and its speed did not decrease.

Clearly, compared to the disc’s current weight, his weight was negligible.

"Not bad, really not bad!"

He returned the disc to its spot, jumped off, and quietly sat back in the small compartment of the Safe House, letting the disc hover to gain more experience.

High in the sky, a flock of huge birds flew swiftly by, seemingly migrating from an unknown origin, now arriving here.

Yang Yuan, thinking of how little food they had left and that water was nearly depleted, aimed the Firepower Flying Disc at the birds, but realizing they were out of range, held back.

"Can’t waste ammo. The disc’s ammunition must be saved to kill the Drought Fiend. Anyway, once Zhao Jiayan wakes up, we can fly directly to resource-rich areas for food and water!"

An hour quickly passed, and the disc’s experience maxed again.

Yang Yuan directed the disc to fly above the Safe House, choosing to upgrade it there to avoid flipping the Safe House should it grow larger.

A white light appeared, and the four-meter diameter disc rapidly expanded.

This time, it took about thirty seconds for the upgrade to complete, with the disc’s diameter swelling from four meters to eight meters.

Its thickness also increased from sixty centimeters to one meter twenty.