An advanced guide for experienced modelers, from building blocks to hand-building Gundams

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PS: Sorry, I am not in a good condition today, so I will release this chapter for free.

Bad news: I have a cold and a slight fever

Good news: I can hold on for a while after taking the medicine. I'll see if I can update another chapter later.

Volume 40: Chapter : How to catch fish when a fisherman can't catch any fish (crossed out, aquatic products)

"Isn't the sonar already adjusted?" Ross walked into the bridge and went straight to the sonar observer. "I remember that the range was expanded a bit."

"Sorry, it's a passive sonar. Without intense activity, it can't accurately display anything," the sonar operator said helplessly. "If we increase the sensitivity, the interference will become very significant."

"The opposing submarine was very professional and maintained silent navigation the entire time. It did not make any moves after the battle began."

After hearing the sonar detector's words, Rhodes fell silent for a while.

"The Sky King has sensors that should be able to detect the opposing submarine." As a former technical sergeant, Mariu knew the configuration of every unit on the battleship except the Zesta. "But the detection range is limited. I wonder if we can find him next time."

Suddenly, Cagalli, who had been standing nearby, stood up.

"Then why don't I fly the other one? You have two Sky Kings, right?" Cagalli's eyes were firm and her tone was undeniable.

"No, you are not a combatant of this ship. Flying the Sky King... will not be a good thing for you." Mari rejected Cagalli's idea without thinking.

"Well...what about them?" Cagalli gritted her teeth and suddenly pointed at Sai who was standing beside her.

"Ah? Me?" Saiyi never thought that he would be involved.

"Kira and the others are here as volunteers, helping out on the battleship," Mari explained calmly. "Although you're a member of the Dawn Desert, to prevent unnecessary trouble upon your return to Orb, your current status is no different from that of a civilian."

"Then, then... what about Ross?!" Cagalli's brain seemed to be stuck for a moment. After thinking for a while, she pointed at Ross and said, "He's not a volunteer soldier, just a space waste recycler. Why is he allowed to participate in the battle?"

"Because it's a mercenary request, Cagalli." Ross reached out and patted Cagalli's head. "The price is a salary and taking me to Orb. I'll be responsible for escorting them from Heliopos to Orb."

"Although my Jegan was blown up because of this..." Ross looked at Mariu. "How about my commission? The damage to the Jegan wasn't included in the price we agreed on at the beginning."

"...After arriving in Orb, I will contact General Halberdon." Malu sighed and covered his head. "The general will give you a suitable price."

"Oh... I see." Ross suddenly took out a calculator and started typing. "Ammunition loss, Luo Juel's hiring fee, aircraft damage costs... after deducting Christina and I's expenses on the Archangel, the total is this."

Ross said, showing a string of numbers, leaving Mariu and Cagalli silent.

"This number... I didn't expect you to be such a black-hearted businessman!" Cagalli was frightened by the string of numbers and slightly distanced herself from Ross.

"This number... is indeed a very reasonable number." Although Mariu was shocked by the number, he accepted it when he thought about the fact that the Jegan and Zesta were obviously newly designed machines.

At this moment, she was calculating in her mind how much commission General Halberton could give her, how much of her own savings she could take out, and whether she should apply for funding in the name of the Archangel.

"...Never mind, I was just teasing you." Ross smiled and clicked a few times on the calculator. "Christina and I had a great time on the Archangel. I'll give you a 30% discount. I can't get any lower."

But even with a 30% discount, Ross still had a 10% profit. After all, Jegan had drawn the design drawings for the mecha himself, and Zesta had even had it made by Daharrow. Apart from the cost of some raw materials, the cost wasn't that high.

But after seeing the discounted amount, Malu was obviously relieved. It seemed that the deposit was saved.

……

Ross came to the hangar and looked at Zesta in front of him, wondering what he was thinking.

"Except for Kira's Strike Gundam, Zesta has not yet undergone a water test." Christina walked over to Ross's side.

Ignoring Big Hello's cries of "My mech won't have any trouble launching" over the private comms, Christina offered Ross a suggestion. "My personal suggestion is that Ross maintain air combat, which is safer. If power is low, he can serve as a makeshift artillery turret on the Archangel."

"But a makeshift turret is still a stretch with Zesta's current firepower." Ross smiled. "After all, the remaining materials on the Archangel can't be used to build a mega particle cannon."

Before Christina could ask what the mega particle cannon was, the alarm sounded again in the Gunakuli.

"No way? It's only been a few hours and it happens again?!" Madoc, who was helping the Sky Overlord to prepare, felt a little scalp tingling.

"It's a good thing that they came back in a short time. It means they have been near us all the time!" Mu turned over and left the Air Overlord, followed Rhodes and ran towards the locker room.

"Huh...Huh, Rhodes, how come you run so fast?!" Seeing the distance between him and Rhodes gradually widening, Mu, who prided himself on being an athlete, was a little overwhelmed.

"Do 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and a 10-kilometer run every day. You can do it like me." Rhodes walked smoothly into the locker room without stopping.

Kira had already changed into his pilot's suit and was ready to go to the hangar.

"I suspect you're kidding me!" Mu, who had just arrived at the locker room, panted and complained. "Your training volume is much worse than mine."

"I know you're still asking, I was born with supernatural powers, okay?" Ross quickly put on his pilot's suit, picked up his helmet from the closet, and followed Kira out the door.

"Kira, wait a minute, you stay near the Archangel and protect it. I'll go and kill the enemies in the distance." Ross ran to Kira's side and instructed Kira.

"Understood!" Kira panted, watching Ross quickly run in front of him and enter the hangar first.

For the first time, Kira doubted his physical abilities as an Adjuster.

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On the seabed, several Gun machines followed a green machine.

"Ha...ha..." The bearded driver, who had just undergone an amputation surgery, breathed heavily. He held a painkiller in his intact left arm and injected it into his amputated right arm.

The connection between the steel pipe-like prosthetic limb and the flesh was still bleeding slightly, but the bearded driver took a look and didn't care.

As a product that allows soldiers to quickly return to battle, there is naturally no camouflage skin or the like. The entire prosthesis is designed with practicality, precision and fast response as the criteria.

Enduring the strange feeling caused by the lack of fine-tuning and the pulling of metal on flesh, the bearded pilot gripped the joystick.

"Captain, we are about to enter the combat zone." The driver of a Gun next to the green machine reminded.

"Huh... Once we accept a mission, we must do our best." The bearded driver took a deep breath and stepped on the pedal. "Marco Lorazim, Zono, this time we must destroy Long Legs!"

After saying that, Marco pressed the trigger on the joystick, and the six-barreled fish launchers on both sides of the Sano began to shoot fish, rushing towards the Archangel.

"I found a broken sound, it's a torpedo!" On the Archangel, the sonar observer who had already monitored the sound of MS told his discovery.

"Dean wasn't found nearby!" Saiyi also spoke, confirming the surrounding situation.

"Battleship, leave the water!" As usual, Malu ordered the Archangel to leave the sea to avoid the torpedo attack.

"Roz Links, High Mobility Type Zesta, attacks!"

Zesta detached from the Archangel's ejection deck, his jet pack spewing thick flames. He stopped the descent of the aircraft and hovered in mid-air.

"Without Dean... does that mean it's all those Gunns this time?" Ross controlled Jegan to put away his beam rifle and reached out to pull out the electromagnetic bazooka.

Ross now felt like he was fishing. He, or the Archangel, was acting as bait, luring these Gunns to bite.

"Rods, the young lady and I will go find their submarine first." Mu's voice came from the communication. Two Sky Overlords left the Archangel one after the other and flew towards the distance.

"Miss? Who?" Rhodes was stunned when he heard Mu's adjective.

But after seeing a Gun appear on the sea surface just below the Archangel, he subconsciously fired a cluster rocket towards that sea area.

"It's me! Bastard!" Cagalli's voice rang out over the comms. "And stinky uncle! What kind of nickname did you give me?!"

"Mr. Ross, if the Strike Gundam uses the sword backpack, it will be no problem to fight underwater." At this time, Kira, driving the Strike Gundam, did not eject, but walked out of the catapult deck. "I'll lure them out!"

"Don't be impulsive, Kira. The number of enemies under the sea is still unclear." Ross tried his best to dissuade Kira. Zesta moved sideways continuously to avoid the small missiles fired from the sea.

"But I can't keep getting beaten!" Kira said firmly, "I'm leaving!"

After saying that, the Strike Gundam jumped off the catapult deck and into the sea.

"Tsk, why is this guy so impulsive?" Ross gritted his teeth and stretched out his left hand to adjust the parameters on the touch screen panel beside him. "Hello, can Zesta fight underwater?"

"Are you imitating that Christina? How dare you underestimate my mobile suit manufacturing technology?" Despite being a little unhappy at Ross's question, Big Haro waved his wings and calmed himself down. "Zesta can fight underwater, but don't use your beam saber or beam carbine. Don't use your high-mobility backpack suddenly on the seabed. It will explode."

"I understand." Ross finished adjusting the parameters and fired two cluster missiles from the electromagnetic rocket launcher in his hand at the bottom of Zesta.

"Malu, this is Ross, I'm going into the water too."

With that, Zesta's high-mobility backpack reduced its thrust until it shut down, and the machine began to plummet into the sea.

Before the bubbles from the explosion dissipated, Zesta entered the water smoothly.

What appeared before him were four Guns and a marine that looked different from the Guns, fighting with the Strike Gundam.

"Oh? Instead of continuing to fire in the sky, you entered my territory?" Seeing the guy in front of him who caused him to lose his right hand and right leg, Marco was shaking with excitement.

The phantom pain in his prosthetic limb sobered him up a bit, and he swam towards Zesta in the Sano.

"New aquatic products?" Ross increased Zesta's power, handed the electromagnetic bazooka to the mechanical arm, and Zesta put on shields with both hands again.

Since beam sabers cannot be used underwater, let's use physical shields and rockets.

Watching the approaching Sano stretch out his huge claws and swing towards Zesta, Ross stepped on the pedal with a calm expression.

Even in the water, Zesta was able to nimbly jump back and avoid Sano's claws.

Then, Sano stretched out his left claw towards Zesta, as if trying to grab him.

Ross pushed the joystick, and Zesta's right hand launched a shield strike towards the center of Sano's left claw. Although it was blocked, Zesta was still pushed back a few steps by Sano's force.

A yellow light appeared in the palm of Sano's hand that was pierced by the shield.

Ross quickly pressed the trigger. Even in the sea, the cluster rockets on the shield were still able to operate. Two cluster rockets quickly broke away from the shield, carrying a large amount of bubble-wrapped tail smoke, and hit Sano's palm accurately, pushing Sano's left palm away from Zesta.

After slightly increasing the distance, the cluster rocket exploded in the palm of Sano's left palm, and the sound wave generator in Sano's left palm was completely damaged.

Zesta leaped back again, creating distance, and raised his shields with both hands like a boxer.

"Huh... Round two." Feeling the resistance of the water flow and the greater physical exertion than on the ground, Rhodes took two breaths.

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PS: My head was a little dizzy, and I beat Zesta into Jegan several times.

Volume 41: Chapter Successfully Winning the Resurrection Match (Various Aspects)

Anyone who has ever tried to swing a knife or punch underwater will be impressed by the resistance created by the water flow.

Fighting underwater with the physical body is so difficult, let alone driving a huge MS to engage in close combat underwater?

"Huh... Huh... The resistance of the water flow is so great." Kira was breathing slightly in the cockpit of the Strike Gundam.

It was like playing a fighting game, but with high latency. Every time Kira wanted to swing his blade at Gunn hovering near the Strike Gundam, they would always dodge it first.

Fortunately, the Strike Gundam's skeleton is very strong, and the current battle will not cause it to break, otherwise Kira's range of movement would not be so large.

"But... I can also fight against strong enemies..."

Kira was grateful for Ross's care, but that didn't mean Kira's combat skills weren't high.

It has to be said that even at the level of an adjuster, Kira's progress is astonishingly rapid.

Although Ross took on all the high-intensity battles, just through combat videos and battles with other miscellaneous mechas, Kira can now stably destroy the limbs of other mechas by shooting.

"Since the attack would be dodged under normal circumstances..." As if some kind of switch had been turned on, Kira's eyes seemed to be blank as he watched Gun marked in the cockpit rushing towards the Strike Gundam.

Gunn's speed, the angle of attack, the position of his arms, the time it takes for his machine to reach his target...

"Now!" Before Gunn rushed to the front, the Strike Gundam had already swung down the ship-slashing sword in his hand.

As if he had predicted the future, Gunn's right shoulder accurately collided with the sharp tip of the ship-slashing sword, and the place where the sword pierced was smoothly split into two.

Due to the separation of his right arm, Gunn's forward posture was deformed, and in order to stabilize the body, the speed was slightly reduced.

Kira seized the opportunity, braving the pressure of the current and slashing the Strike Gundam through Gunn's legs in two blows. He then severed Gunn's remaining left arm. In less than thirty seconds, the ZAFT aquatic "Gunn" was completely powerless.

Seeing that the Gunn in front of him had lost his limbs, Kira turned his attention to the other Gunn wandering nearby.

On the other side, Zesta and Sano were also in a standoff.

"Tsk... His left arm is damaged, it's really tough." Marco took a look at Zono's left hand which had just been blown up by the cluster bomb. The system showed that the area had turned red.

Sano leaned forward slightly, and the underwater thrusters on his body started to work, rushing towards Zesta at an extremely fast speed.

Rhodes moved the joystick, trying to avoid Sano's advance and looking for an opportunity to attack.

But Zesta's movements underwater were quite slow. Even though Ross's movements were very fast, Sano, who had dodged his advance, turned around and slapped Zesta's shield with his still intact right claw.

Zesta was knocked back two steps by the sudden impact.

"Hmm..." Feeling the impact he hadn't felt in a long time, Ross gritted his teeth.

But before Ross could adjust the machine's posture, Sano quickly stopped in the water, changed direction and rushed towards Zesta.

Rhodes was about to throw a punch, but he felt it was too late, so he could only continue to hold up his double shields.