"But it seems you don't need it."
The employee noticed that Mercer wasn't very interested, so he simply gave up and pointed to other items: "Look, we also have fixed defense turrets, cameras, and a lot of excellent personal protection equipment. Would you like to pick some more?"
He glanced at Mercer, then made an irresistible suggestion: "We currently have the 'Family Christmas Feast' package.
Since you've already decided to purchase drones, why not consider some bulletproof clothing that offers stronger protection for family members?
The Family Christmas Feast package can provide a maximum support defense bundle for a family of up to eight, based on the number of people and their body types in your family.
The bundle includes the option to select the latest carbon fiber bulletproof jacket from Military Science, weighing only an astonishing two kilograms, yet capable of blocking one triple-shot from Arasaka's authentic rifle at a ten-meter distance.
Furthermore, we will equip each of your family members with the latest M10-AF Lexington kinetic pistol. This pistol is solid, reliable, battle-tested, and absolutely a cost-effective treasure..."
Mercer shook his head: "I don't need miscellaneous weapons, but I'm very interested in bulletproof clothing. Can you give me a more cost-effective plan?"
"Yes, of course. If you are very meticulous and tasteful in your selection of items, then I recommend you purchase the 'Christmas Gift Package'. You can choose any five different items, and we will pack them for you in a Christmas gift box.
Enjoy an exclusive 20% discount on the Christmas gift box."
After the employee finished speaking, Mercer decisively nodded.
He realized he might not be suited for shopping—wanting to buy everything, how does that work?
In the end, Mercer generously bought two Christmas Gift Packages and added some odds and ends, then eagerly went to check out.
Nominally, they were family defense drones, but in fact, they were military technology Winged Dragon drones, including their built-in drone gun and modifications.
A heavy machine gun, with a fixed mount that can be equipped with smart AI fire control.
Bulletproof vests selected based on the current team numbers, paired with bullets, hand grenades, additional bulletproof inserts.
The price was very beautiful.
Under the Christmas promotion, only 68,000 Euros.
Among them, the drones were discounted to only 8,000 Euros each, and with the built-in gun and other modifications, they were only 12,000 Euros each, almost level with directly purchasing a combat Winged Dragon.
The heavy machine gun with a fixed mount and five boxes of a hundred-round bullet chains still cost a whopping 30,000 Euros even at an 80% discount,
while the other bulletproof clothing, hand grenades, and additional purchased bullets amounted to the remaining 24,000 Euros.
Mercer calculated the expenses and finally realized it was the machine gun bullets that were the most expensive. Don't be fooled by the cheap per-unit wholesale price; who buys machine gun bullets one round at a time?
Ordinary bullets must be bought by the box, which costs 3,000 Euros per box, without discount.
One box of bullets contains only a thousand rounds.
Average price per shot is about 3 Euros – but with the firepower of a heavy machine gun, you're basically firing about 500 rounds per minute, which means about 3,000 Euros are gone in two minutes if you keep the trigger pressed.
Moreover, the bullets are divided into civilian/military versions.
Military armor-piercing bullets have skyrocketed to 8 Euros each, a box costing 8,000 Euros, filling a bullet chain box with one hundred rounds means one magazine costs 800 Euros.
Mercer utterly didn't consider the 13 Euro per shot military armor-piercing incendiary rounds.
In the end, he gritted his teeth and bought two boxes of armor-piercing bullets, two boxes of ordinary full-power rounds.
Expensive, really expensive!
Yet Mercer had no choice because he's not fighting unarmed civilians but nasty gangs on the streets or company-trained warriors.
Without armor-piercing bullets, they probably couldn't penetrate their subcutaneous armor and bulletproof vests.
He still placed the delivery address at Adcardo's camp before turning to explore Kangtao.
He wanted to get himself a more fierce weapon.
Kenshin's type of technical pistol that can't exert full power without charging is somewhat inadequate for Mercer in the face of the crisis he needs to confront.
In case of danger, where is there time to charge for a second?
So Kangtao became Mercer's most favored choice for weapon upgrade.
Although smart weapons require lock-on time, the lock-on time is related to the smart lock-on program inside the firearm.
The most important thing is, if you're a hacker, you can use the intelligent link prosthetic installed in your hand, use brain computing power to reduce lock-on time for smart weapons.
In the game, players can, after unlocking advanced hacking skills, make smart weapons become auto-targeting treasures without needing lock-on time during Brain-Machine Overclocking state.
In reality, Mercer is quite confident—using smart weapons, he probably wouldn't need to activate Brain-Machine Overclocking to ensure the smart weapons in his hands have no concept of lock-on time.
Pick it up and shoot, bullets launch and automatically track, each shot elegantly hitting the enemy's head, while simultaneously locking on multiple enemies.
This is the type of weapon Mercer dreams of.
Mercer wandered around, only to find unfortunately none of the customized high-end weapons like the 'Yinglong' submachine gun he loved in the game.
But he did see an advanced smart shotgun praised by Kangtao staff as 'cross-era'.
L69-type 'Zhuo Style' smart shotgun.
This is a shotgun with virtually no competitors.