bioinnovel Chapter 498 Forging!
Chapter 498 Forging!
The renovation began at 6 a.m. on the first day.
The Chaos Mech was fixed to a maintenance frame in the center of the Heavenly Craft Hall, its limbs outstretched, its chest armor open, and its internal wiring and energy pipes exposed to runic illumination.
All eight members of the Guixu technical team were present. The oldest member had followed Mo Yuan for four hundred years, while the youngest had just turned nineteen.
Zhang Yan stood directly beneath the maintenance frame, looking up at the chaotic internal structure.
This mech has followed him from the Jinghai Sea to the moon, from the stratosphere to the Kuiper Belt, and now he has to dig out its heart and rearrange it.
"The physical location of the Four Spirits' core remains unchanged," Zhang Yan told the head of the technical team.
The team leader was named Mo Yu. He was a tall, thin man who spoke very little but had very steady hands.
"But the energy loop has to be completely retraced, the original parallel structure has been changed to a star topology, and the central node has been left to the Heart of the Creator."
Mo Yu nodded and took a quantum cutting pen from the tool rack.
"When will the stress distribution layer for the outer frame arrive?" Zhang Yan asked.
"The materials team has already started manufacturing," Mo Li replied from the side.
"The first batch of finished products is expected to arrive in three days."
"What about the remaining 30% of the resonance calibrator?"
"You need to do it yourself." Mo Li handed over a piece of unfinished, half-finished product.
A palm-sized metal block covered with countless unsoldered ports.
"This part requires real-time, synchronous comparison by the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart; no one else can access it."
Zhang Yan took it and weighed it in his hand. It was ridiculously light, and the material and feel were exactly the same as the outer shell of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart.
"I'll do it this afternoon; I'll finish dismantling the main energy loop in the morning."
Mo Yu was already at work, the cutting pen tracing the first old pipe, the cut clean and crisp.
Zhang Yan climbed onto the maintenance frame, and the Thousand-Mechanical Arm popped out from his wrist, its six mechanical fingers unfolding to firmly clamp the connector of the second pipe.
The temperature inside the Heavenly Crafts Hall began to rise.
Day three.
The resonance calibrator completed the first round of same-frequency comparison. Zhang Yan spent seven hours welding and calibrating more than 300 ports one by one.
During welding, a portion of his consciousness needs to be diverted into the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship to maintain synchronization, much like performing neurosurgery while solving advanced mathematics problems.
Mo Yu watched for half an hour before silently walking away.
Guan Xing asked him what he thought.
Mo Yu replied with two words: "I'm convinced."
Day .
Zhang Yan sent the first delayed communication.
The content is short. Day 5, progress 34%, normal. I've had a meal.
After typing it, I deleted the last three words and typed it again.
Day 5, progress 34%, everything is normal. Today, a young guy in the tech team soldered a wire wrong and got scolded by Mo Yu until he cried. I miss you.
Send it out.
Fourteen hours later, I received a reply from Nie Qingcheng.
"As long as the progress is normal, everything is fine on Earth. Qin Xiao's three newly recruited soldiers were crying and wanted to change careers, but after he beat them up, they stopped crying."
I miss you. I'll come back and cook for you.
Zhang Yan smiled as he looked at the last line of text, turned off the communication, and continued working.
Seventh day.
The level of mental alignment increased from 98.2% to 98.7%.
The ascension speed was three times faster than on Earth. The environment of Guixu had a natural amplifying effect on the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship, due to the homogeneous materials, the residual field effect of 30,000 years, and the faint guiding waves emitted by the projection of the final blueprint of Heavenly Craftsmanship above the floating platform.
Zhang Yan discovered a trick.
When he uses his consciousness to control the Thousand Arms without activating the mech, the synchronization rate of the Heart of Heaven will fluctuate positively from 0.01% to 0.03%.
Accumulating small gains over time is far more effective than deliberate meditation.
So he began to use all his spare time to remotely control the Thousand-Machine Arm to do things.
I used it to pick up food while eating, and Guanxing scolded me for it.
Use it to open doors for yourself while walking.
When the technical team performs precision welding, they simply abandon physical contact and operate entirely remotely.
The accuracy is two orders of magnitude higher than manual operation.
Mo Yu glanced at the seam he had welded remotely.
Silent for a long time.
Then he put away his quantum cutting pen.
"I can't do this part better than you," Mo Yu said.
"I'll go help the materials team."
Day 9.
Qin Xiao's delayed communication has arrived.
"Brother Yan, the three scouts on the outer edge of the Kuiper Belt have had their direction disrupted by the passive shielding of the gate network. They are currently drifting in the opposite direction and will not approach in the short term."
"My sister-in-law told me to tell you not to worry about this side of Earth."
"In addition, before Guanxing left, he left me with an algorithm. I ran a simulation, and the gate network self-sustaining mode is working well."
"There's one more thing. The Great Wall team had a get-together yesterday, and everyone said they'd treat you to dinner when you get back. Remember to come back."
Zhang Yan replied.
"Okay, don't make the new recruits cry too much."
On the tenth night.
Zhang Yan opened the metal box in his residence and played the short video he had filmed on the balcony before leaving, using a holographic projector.
I watched it three times.
On the third viewing, he noticed a detail he hadn't paid attention to before: in the last two seconds of the video, Nie Qingcheng reached out and straightened his collar, and as her fingers slid across the collar, the ring on her ring finger reflected the light.
He turned off the projector.
Put the metal box back into your inner pocket.
Then continue working.
The twelfth day.
4 PM. Renovation progress: 74%.
The rearrangement of the four core elements has been completed, the energy loop test of the star topology has been passed, the resonance calibrator has been installed, and all parameters are within the allowable error range.
The stress distribution layer of the outer frame is 60% complete, and the materials team is working overtime to finish the remaining part.
Zhang Yan climbed down from the maintenance rack and wiped away his sweat.
The air inside the Tiangong Hall had become stale due to days of construction, and the circulation system emitted a buzzing overload sound.
He was about to pour himself a glass of water.
The alarm went off.
It wasn't an alarm from inside the Heavenly Crafts Hall; it came from the outer perimeter of the Ruins of Return, penetrating the entire city's metal framework, causing every wall to vibrate.
Red light streaks spread along the corridor.
The Guixu defense system is fully activated.
Zhang Yan hadn't even poured out the water when he withdrew his hand.
The Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart automatically enters a state of alert, and its body temperature rises by two degrees.
The system panel pops up.
The outer defense satellites detected an unidentified flying object.
Quantity: three.
The directions of origin are located at 27 degrees east of north, due west, and 41 degrees west of south of the Guixu space bubble, respectively.
The speed is extremely fast, but it is decelerating.
Energy feature matching results, community, matching degree 97.6%.
Zhang Yan put down his cup and walked towards the communication panel in the Heavenly Craft Hall.
Mo Ling's voice came through first; she was already in the command center.
"Three targets, not ordinary elites."
She sent me the screenshot.
The image shows three individuals whose size far exceeds that of normal elite species, and whose shells are not the dark silver that Zhang Yan saw in the Kuiper Belt.
It is pure black.
Each one had an energy reading that was at least four times higher than the elite species he had annihilated.
"ETA two hours." Mo Ling's voice was deep.
"Approaching from three directions simultaneously, the deceleration trajectory is a standard encirclement and compression formation."
Zhang Yan stared at the screenshot for three seconds.
The seventy-day countdown has only been going on for twelve days, and the mother body is still months away, but its advance team has already reached the doorstep.
"Call him Mo Yuan," Zhang Yan said.
"All mobile combat units are now online."
He turned to look at the Chaos Mech with its chest cavity opened on the maintenance rack.
The renovation is 74% complete, the energy loop is finished, but the outer frame is only 60% complete. It's not impossible to open it up, but the defense will be reduced by at least 40%.
two hours.
Zhang Yan walked into chaos.
The Thousand-Arm Splits out from the wrist, its six mechanical fingers unfolding in the air and beginning to perform emergency sealing on the inside of the mech's chest cavity at a speed invisible to the naked eye.
"Stargazing." He said without turning his head.
"exist."
"Help me lock and secure 60% of the outer frame that's already assembled. Use welding, not bolts. Quickly."
How fast?
"Within an hour and a half."
Without further ado, Guan Xing grabbed his tools and climbed onto the maintenance rack.
Mo Ling's communication was still on, Zhang Yan said as he packaged the package.
How many vehicles are available for combat in Guixu?
"Twelve escort ships, six of which are combat-ready," Mo Ling replied.
Is that enough?
Zhang Yan did not hesitate.
"Not enough, but that's okay."
He pushed the last main energy pipe back into the slot and locked it.
I looked up at the countdown.
One hour and fifty-seven minutes.
"That's enough for me."