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The first is the steam-powered technology derived from those penetrating cylinders in World Three. According to the conclusions provided by the main god, this propulsion structure is largely unsuitable as a direct means of attack; it is more effective as a support function—at least until electric-based technologies are developed.
The second inspiration came from World Six, which is the giant world that Lin Yi is currently in.
It must be said that this world is quite peculiar. A single change in the gravitational constant has caused tremendous changes to the entire world from top to bottom. Whether it is trees that are tens of meters tall or giant humanoids that can stand upright, it is even more incredible that the creatures in this world can still maintain a "normal body size".
Since this world can give birth to unscientific beings like "giants" due to differences in gravity, then similarly, the "3D teleportation device," which would only be a fantasy in World Zero, can also be legitimately turned into reality... as long as its "push force" is stronger than "gravity."
"This device allows humans to move beyond simple two-dimensional movement and develop three-dimensional movement..."
Noticing the legion commander's still bewildered gaze, Lin Yi had to suppress the urge to show off his new discovery and toy: "To put it simply, with the help of this three-dimensional device, the human army can effectively strike the giants' vital points."
"The vital point?"
Freed from a barrage of incomprehensible terms like two-dimensional and three-dimensional, the legion commander quickly pressed on, "You know the giant's weak point?!"
Subtly dodging the hand reaching for him, Lin Yi maintained his composure: "No, I don't know. But since they're called giants, even though they do look bigger than ordinary people, shouldn't their physiological structure be similar to humans? Just aim for their heart, head, or throat, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the expressions of the people present changed immediately.
It's not that they couldn't think of it, it's just that they abandoned this goal from the very beginning.
Everyone knows that aiming for vital points in combat is a given, especially for soldiers whose profession is killing. However, knowing is one thing, being able to do it is another. With a height difference of over ten meters, how can an ordinary human, whose standing height is barely close to a giant's knee, possibly attack their heart or even their head?
"This 3D motion device is sufficient."
Lin Yi tapped the jetpack made by the main god, and smiled at the suspicious looks around him: "After all, in this situation, there is no other choice, is there?"
The next day, as expected, when Lin Yi returned from outside the city, he saw many soldiers training on the city walls, some of whom had already been equipped with crude replicas.
It's clear that, under the lack of standardized manufacturing, these "knock-off" products are largely poorly made. At least during Lin Yi's passage, one person fell from the city wall, which was over ten meters high, due to a broken rope...
Survival rate: 0.71%
"You should consider the gravity in this world; there's at least a 1.5% chance you're still alive."
[Correct judgment]
Humanity in this world truly had no other choice, so no matter how absurd the ideas proposed by Lin Yi, this suddenly appearing "inventor," were, as long as there was even a slight possibility of stopping those giants, they would be adopted—this was not difficult, after personally demonstrating how to use this 3D maneuvering device to move flexibly around the church, which was tens of meters high.
The only unexpected thing was that the decision to use the 3D teleportation device was ultimately made not by the legion commander, but by the king, who somehow learned about it.
The ways of thinking at the top and at the bottom are always different. What is "basic training" with an extremely high mortality rate for ordinary soldiers is meaningless to those in command. If only 1% of the soldiers who are eventually trained can kill Titans, then they only need to send 100 people to receive training.
With the accumulation of a huge number of cases, quantitative change can turn into qualitative change, as long as there is even the slightest "probability".
Clearly, the emergence of the 3D Maneuver Gear implies a tiny "probability": the probability of humanity defeating the Titans.
Time passed slowly as fear increasingly filled people's emotions. As the production of the 3D Maneuver Gear began to be mass-produced and the number of recruits trained continued to increase, Lin Yi, after leaving with a large amount of rewards under the pretext of "improving the device," also prepared his follow-up plans in an orderly manner. The top priority was to correct the "vital point" of the Titans.
In this regard, Lin Yi discovered that he had made a habitual mistake (seven) Ershan Lingyu ⑨⑦ (three) thinking error.
Why is the vital point of a giant the same as that of a human?
The heart as the pumping organ, the brain as the center of thought, and the throat as the intake organ of oxygen?
No, these are unnecessary for "giants". The only things needed to sustain a giant's survival are energy and gene samples for proliferation. The former is provided by enhancement drugs, and may be further improved as the giants' mutations are refined.
Since these essential things don't exist, why insist on the similarities between giants and humans?
"Doing this serves no purpose other than providing targets for attack."
On the life-sized drawing, a complete cross-sectional analysis of a giant was presented. Lin Yi first ruled out the parts near his heart.
"The 'flesh and blood' formed by proliferation does not have blood vessels or other structures that transport blood. Rather, it is just a bunch of fat that expands in size and weight to amplify its destructive power. As long as it consumes enough energy, it can continuously repair itself even if it is cut off... The design of the heart is meaningless."
The second thing to be crossed out is the head.
"Attacks on the thinking center are a habit of every natural creature. Unfortunately, the giant skulls created through proliferation are not much better than other parts of the body. They will only become the most direct target for future users of firearms."
The throat was the last organ to be ruled out, for reasons that perfectly combined the defects of the heart and the head.
Afterwards, Lin Yi drew all over the blueprints, thinking about the giant's only weakness—the location where the gene, which serves as a sample for proliferation, should be placed.
"The abdomen is no good; its defenses are weaker than most other parts of the body. The Titans' enemies are definitely not the humans of this world; they are merely tools for testing..."
"Hips? What made you think that..."
"Legs... if you don't want a giant over ten meters tall to die on those natives who are less than two meters tall in the future..."
After repeatedly proposing and eliminating targets, Lin Yi finally realized that there were only two body parts that could be chosen.
"The spine... its defense is strong enough, but its hollow structure is too weak to support large movements. Such a modification would prevent the Titan from moving at more than 50% of its strength, which means that the Titan's original physical and strength advantages have been completely abandoned."
Shaking its head, it rejected yet another proposal from the Supreme God. On the chaotic drawing, only one area remained clear.
"...Let's leave it here. Maybe it can be a surprise for those humans who are working hard to train how to cut the throats of giants."
Forbidden Zone of Life: Chapter 76 Giants (5)
This was certainly not a pleasant experience.
After a day of training, Beritos stretched his back, which ached from being constricted by the rope, and grumbled inwardly.
In his more than twenty years of training, no one had ever told him that running around on the city walls with a rope tied to him was part of knightly training. Or were those officers hoping to deal with someone through this kind of joke-like training?
As he swallowed the black bread he was chewing with the thick soup, Beritos subconsciously recalled the bits and pieces of information he had heard before being transferred to this training camp…
"Hey, are you alone?"
The sudden sound interrupted Beritos's thoughts, and when he looked up, he saw that familiar face again.
"Give up, Chester, there's no way I can accept your invitation."
Despite his refusal, the soldier training with him from the same cohort didn't give up. He even went further, taking over the opposite position and, while observing his surroundings, whispering, "You know nothing, Beritus! Why we were transferred here, and why we're undergoing this inexplicable training—"
Beritus continued eating but surprisingly remained silent, because he genuinely knew nothing about these matters.
After receiving orders to be transferred to the training camp, he, like other trainees, was forbidden from contacting the outside world. His daily routine consisted of training, training, and more training—the kind of training that was almost comical. Not only Beritos himself, but during these two weeks of monotonous repetition, he noticed that other recruits of his cohort had similar doubts. The most radical among them was this trainee named Chester, whom he remembered coming from…
"You know, I used to be a guard patrolling in the capital, but I was sent here because I offended a nobleman."
As he said this, Chester lowered his voice even further: "Unlike you, I obtained some intelligence before I was sent here, about the purpose of this training camp and the 'enemies' we will have to face later."
Upon hearing this, Beritos finally stopped eating, and as if infected by the atmosphere, he also lowered his voice: "The enemy?"
"That's right! Did you think we were swinging on swings every day hanging on the city wall? That was balance training to learn how to use the 3D Maneuver Gear... You ask me what the 3D Maneuver Gear is? Damn it, those things are just used by madmen to murder us soldiers. The training class ahead of us lost half of its members because of training with those devices! The lucky ones had their arms and legs broken and were forced to retire, and the unlucky ones fell off the city wall and were never even recognized."
Hearing this, even though Beritos was somewhat prepared, he couldn't help but feel a sense of fear. In the past two weeks, he had seen people fall from the city wall, mostly because of problems with the ropes, and a small number because they were not used to this kind of training.
Those who fell were at most completely mutilated, some even beyond recognition. There was no way to find a complete body – falling from a height of over ten meters onto compacted, hard ground, this was the extent of their destruction.
The most important point is...
"……half?"
"That's right! They haven't even encountered the 'enemy' yet, nor have they had time to acquire specially made weapons, and they've already lost more than half of their numbers in the initial training. With the added intensive training later on, I'm afraid it would be good if two out of ten survived!"
As he spoke, a shadow fell over Chester's face: "That's not all, Beritus. Do you know what the real enemy we're dealing with in all this training is?"
Recalling the rumors he had heard before entering the training camp, Beritos asked skeptically, "A... giant?"
"Yes, those are the giants!"
Upon confirming his guess, Beritos gasped. Before he could even process the reality, Chester eagerly added, "As a soldier, you should know what happened to those knightly orders that went to fight the giants. They were equipped with the best gear and suffered thousands of casualties, yet they couldn't kill a single giant. Do you really think we can fight those giants with our ridiculous training? Impossible. We'll be killed and eaten—those giants love nothing more than stuffing us into their mouths and chewing us up. And they don't eat anything but humans..."
Seeing Chester's obvious emotional breakdown, Beritos hesitated for a moment, just as he was about to agree to the suggestion Chester had made during their first meeting, when a loud whistle suddenly rang out from the playground outside.
The two trainees exchanged a glance, each carrying their own unease, and walked into the assembled ranks. Beritus was then drawn to the neatly stacked equipment.
Compared to regular knight equipment, this equipment showed absolutely no elements suitable for combat—no armor, no shield, and even the weapons consisted of only two things that were more like blades than "blades," along with two long, box-like objects.
Subconsciously, a word popped into Beritos's mind: 3D Maneuver Gear.
The next moment, the training camp officer confirmed his earlier guess: "This is a 3D Maneuver Gear. You have thirty minutes to familiarize yourself with it and then equip yourself with it! Assemble at the south gate in thirty minutes—"
After a pause, facing the many puzzled and worried gazes before him, the officer steeled himself and shouted loudly, "Leave the city and slay the giants!"
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The giants that appeared not far south of the capital were Lin Yi's creation, and unlike those giants that remained further south, these giants were "improved" versions.
They not only reduced energy consumption but also solved a problem similar to the "vital points" of humans. However, the price was a reduction in the density of cells in the giants' bodies, which indirectly weakened their defense. There is no such thing as a "perfect" setting in the world. What Lin Yi needs to do is maximize the positive aspects that are beneficial to him and minimize the negative aspects.
The current "Giants Ver2.00" is an attempt based on this idea, and now it's time to verify the results...
P.S.: Thank you to "明夕8陕零(⒐+灵*弃⑼伍玐玦" for the donation.
Forbidden Zone of Life: Chapter 77 Giants (6)
"Spread out! Everyone, keep your distance and make sure you can see your teammates. If you spot a Titan, sound the alarm immediately!"
Whether it was the Titans against humans or humans against Titans, the two sides about to come into contact knew nothing about each other, and naturally there were no tactics or theories to speak of. Under such circumstances, as the officer who received the news that the Titans were approaching the capital and led this group of soldiers out of the city to meet them, it must be said that every order he issued was the most suitable for this situation.
Being too far away would only intensify the fear of already terrified soldiers, causing them to break down in the event of an unexpected situation. Conversely, being too close would allow them to be wiped out by any sudden appearance of a giant. Only by maintaining a suitable distance could the search area be expanded while also taking into account the soldiers' feelings.
To set an example, the officer even took the lead and ran ahead of everyone else.
His actions certainly gave the new recruits great courage, including Beritus, whose movements were still somewhat stiff.
"It's alright, it's alright... It's all just rumors. Giants don't exist; they're just ordinary large beasts..."
He kept repeating these words to comfort himself, but when his gaze inadvertently swept to the two gas canisters at his waist, a wave of fear washed over him again—by Maria, he would rather have a broken short sword in his hand than fight with these "new equipment".
Beritus estimated that he was more likely to be killed by the equipment that delayed his movements than by using it to successfully kill the enemy. He wanted to discard the equipment that hindered his movement, but the watchful eyes around him prevented him from doing so. Beritus could only press on, fueled by his anxiety, until that desperate shout rang out—
"Attention! A large object is approaching from the right—"
The pale-faced soldier on the right no longer needed to remind them; the ever-increasing tremors on the ground were the most direct signal.
The specially trained warhorses did not falter at this crucial moment. Although they were also uneasy about the unusual commotion, they maintained a general level of stability under the soldiers' command. However, the stability of the warhorses did not mean that the soldiers could remain stable as well.
Without truly seeing the real face of the shadow in Mori Riri's eyes, Beritos felt his heart skip a beat the instant he caught a glimpse of its outline—
Head on the neck
middle torso
waving hands
Steps to be taken
What is capable of having this ability and performing this action?
Beritus knew this very well, so when the silhouette stepped on a tree more than five meters tall blocking its path and rushed to the right side of the group, it came into view, but he was not surprised—only terrified.
"G-Giants—!!!"
At that moment, all illusions were shattered by that outstretched giant hand.
Beritus stared blankly as the soldier who had first given the warning was grabbed and lifted up, his screams, a mixture of distorted syllables—whether pleading or cursing—vanishing into his gaping mouth.
"Ha...haha...you must be kidding...giants and all that...aren't they just rumors..."
Emotion made Beritos unwilling to accept what was happening before him, while reason kept urging him to act. This tangled and sluggish thinking prevented him from making a judgment. Just then—
"retreat--!"
Startled, Beritos instinctively glanced in the direction of the officer at the very front of the column: "Spread out! Everyone retreat—quickly!!!"
The soldier's instinct to obey orders led Beritos to act before he could even process reality, urging his horse to flee to the left of the column.
The scenery on both sides of the road became distorted during the escape, as if someone was being gripped by a giant hand reaching out from the darkness, someone was calling for help, someone was ordering a counterattack... everything became blurry.
"Law! Law! Law!"
The soldier, suddenly losing his balance on horseback, tumbled to the ground in a disheveled manner due to inertia. When he raised his head in a daze, his warhorse had already galloped far away. Looking around, the hazy memories caused by the impact gradually began to fade.
"Giant... giant, giant -"
Screaming in panic, Beritos drew the bladed weapon he had previously dismissed, but his trembling movements made it seem as if he wanted to use it in battle.
"Don't worry, there are no giants here."
Slowing down his tone, Lin Yi stepped out from the side and raised his hands to indicate that he had no hostility, but what he was met with was a terrified scream and a reaction of turning around and running away. However, in his panic, he was quickly tripped up.
"Hmm, does the lack of threat in the era of cold weapons mean it's different from modern times?"
Insufficient information to make a judgment
Considering whether he should use the method of holding a weapon and then throwing it away to express his lack of hostility next time, Lin Yi approached the soldier lying on the ground: "Calm down, I am not your enemy, and there are no giants here."
It took Lin Yi a full half hour to calm the soldier down—and that was only with the help of the main god; otherwise, given his previous state, even if he survived, he would at least have gone mad from the immense mental shock.
"First, I have to tell you some bad news: all the soldiers who came with you have been killed in action by those giants."
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