Tina's attention was drawn to the object Andy mentioned that enhanced weapons.
What kind of thing could enhance weapons, and judging by the state of the laboratory, it seemed that the destructive power of such an object was quite significant.
Intense curiosity made Tina unable to resist asking:
"Andy, what exactly has you so engrossed, and it looks like you've succeeded?"
Andy shook the automatic pistol in his hand, handed it to Tina, and carefully cautioned her:
"Be careful, the commotion just now wasn't caused by a grenade."
Not a grenade?
Could it be that the explosion just now was caused by this pistol?
How could that be? This was just an ordinary automatic pistol, not a grenade launcher.
Tina carefully examined the automatic pistol in her hand but couldn't find anything peculiar about it.
If there was anything different, it was only that the pistol had an Orokin lotus-shaped pattern on it.
But this pattern was clearly the Orokin emblem, a unique symbol designed by Andy himself, and it appeared on all Orokin products.
Unable to understand, Tina held the pistol with both hands, aimed at a brand-new target standing not far away, and prepared to shoot.
"Hmm, wait!"
Andy suddenly spoke, making Tina stop and look back at him in confusion.
"I think you should put on some protection before you shoot."
As he spoke, the robotic arm in the laboratory, following Andy's instructions, brought out various protective gear.
Tina looked at the pile of protective gear and chuckled:
"This is just an automatic pistol, why are you bringing out military protective equipment? No matter how powerful it is, it doesn't need all this."
She found it hard to believe; it was just a pistol, and Andy wanted her to wear military equipment. How could such a small gun require military equipment?
Andy said with a serious expression:
"I know it's incredible, but trust me, this is to protect you. This gun's power is astonishing."
Helpless, Tina had no choice but to put on the protective equipment and once again held the gun, ready to shoot.
"I'm going to start~"
"Hmm, go ahead!"
With a bang, the bullet flew out.
The moment Tina fired, Andy embraced her and ducked for cover.
Amidst a huge explosion, the target was once again shattered, and metal fragments flew out.
Tina personally saw a metal fragment deeply embedded in the wall.
Covering her mouth, Tina exclaimed in surprise, "OMG, this… this is terrifying."
Andy put his arm around Tina's waist and said with a smile, "See? This is the effect of an enhanced weapon."
While Andy was smug and Tina was astonished, Audis's mechanical synthesized voice sounded, quite out of place.
"Sir! There's some bad news, would you like to hear it?"
Listening to Audis's somewhat hesitant words, Andy felt very strange.
Audis usually wouldn't be like this. Had something gone wrong again?
"Tell me! What's the bad news?"
As soon as Andy finished speaking, the virtual projection in the laboratory displayed the data from the two explosions.
"Comparing the two explosions, it was found that the destructive power of the explosion caused by Miss Tina's shot has significantly decreased."
Significantly decreased destructive power?
This was no small problem. Two shots from the same pistol could not have completely different destructive power.
Andy picked up the gun and fired another shot at the target.
After the explosion, Audis again reported that the destructive power continued to decrease.
Andy, not believing it, fired a few more shots, and as a result, the pistol's destructive power decreased with each shot.
Until the last bullet was fired, the destructive power of the explosion was no longer enough to shatter the target.
Although it still damaged the target, not only Andy but even Tina could clearly feel that the pistol's destructive power was decreasing.
Perhaps Tina didn't understand, but Andy was absolutely clear.
Such a situation must be related to the Amplification Crystal.
Putting the pistol into the enhancement chamber, Andy separated the Amplification Crystal that had been fused into the automatic pistol.
Blue-gold energy was dissipating from the surface of the separated Fire and Deep Freeze mods.
"This is their true appearance? Their energy seems to be dissipating! Oh~ they're really beautiful."
Tina exclaimed as she looked at the Amplification Crystals with dissipating energy.
At this moment,
Andy had no time to respond to Tina; he clearly felt that the Amplification Crystal's energy was rapidly draining. If this continued, the Amplification Crystal would be rendered useless.
"Audis, activate the enhancement chamber to inject energy into the crystals."
Instantly, the enhancement chamber glowed, and the dissipating energy flowed back into the Amplification Crystals along the rays.
The Amplification Crystals returned to normal.
Tina stepped forward, patted Andy's shoulder, and gently comforted him:
"Don't be sad. Even if their effects can't last long, you can prepare a few more."
Andy didn't respond; he was using the Orokin System to review the Orokin knowledge he had acquired.
The dissipation of the Amplification Crystal's energy must have its own reasons. Since Orokin weapons and equipment could use Amplification Crystals normally, there was no reason this automatic pistol couldn't.
In the process of constantly reviewing his knowledge, Andy discovered that in the Orokin Empire, no one directly used weapons and equipment.
All military forces under the Orokin Empire, when using weapons and equipment, either used warframes, wore power armor, or even the Guardian Armor of the Orokin Guard clan.
Even if they didn't wear any armor, they would wear a special combat suit.
In the past, Andy had always thought this combat suit was to help Commanders with Void powers control their abilities, but now it seemed it might have another effect.
Perhaps the combat suit was providing energy to the Amplification Crystal. Without an external energy supply, the Amplification Crystal would use its own energy to enhance the equipment, which was likely why the Amplification Crystal's energy was dissipating.
Thinking of a solution, Andy used the Orokin System to quickly find the manufacturing knowledge for the Orokin combat suit, but an awkward problem then appeared before him.
Andy had not acquired any knowledge regarding Orokin batteries. Without the crucial Orokin batteries, the Orokin combat suit simply could not be manufactured.
The mainstream energy source was still electricity, and the best use of nuclear energy, the reactor in Stark Industries, could not be carried around.
Even the small reactor in Tony Stark's chest would not be seen for a few more years.
Currently, even if Andy manufactured an Orokin combat suit, without an ample energy supply, the combat suit would just be a tight-fitting suit with energy circuits.
Andy closed his eyes, his mind racing. There had to be a solution, there had to be…
The energy circuits of the Orokin combat suit gradually became clear in his mind.
Yes! It was the combat suit's energy circuits.
Andy's thoughts gradually became clear, and he continuously manipulated the virtual projection to engrave the Orokin combat suit.
Finally, the combat suit took shape in the virtual projection.
"Audis, remove all woven materials from the Orokin combat suit."
The combat suit in the virtual projection began to dissipate, leaving only a skeletal structure.
"Remove all auxiliary devices, metal components."
The skeletal structure disappeared, leaving only lines of energy circuits.
He raised his hand to shrink the energy circuits and change their shape to fit his hand.
Under Andy's operation, a pair of energy gloves specifically for powering Amplification Crystals was created.
Then Andy used the manufacturing chamber to forge nearly a hundred Inner Fusion Cores into one Fusion Core.
The moment the Fusion Core was placed into the energy glove, Andy clearly felt a surge of energy flowing through the glove.
Picking up the automatic pistol fused with Hornet Sting again, Andy had the illusion that the pistol was a part of his own body.
He fired a few shots at the target; the pistol's power did not decrease in the slightest, and with each shot, Andy could feel the energy in the pistol interacting with the energy glove.