Chapter 1102 - 208: Mechanic Maintenance

Chapter 1102: Chapter 208: Mechanic Maintenance

Gao Gong regarded the other party’s behavior with serious suspicion.

If it had been earlier, unless he contaminated the guy, he really wouldn’t have had many options—after all, in his camp there was only this one Senior Mechanic.

And if he really did contaminate him, Gao Gong was still a bit wary. The man had Mirta bloodline—who knew if the Mirta People had developed some special bloodline tech specifically against Evil Gods.

If the contamination was detected and the Mirta People brought a Civilization Army to besiege them, wouldn’t that be game over.

So before this, he’d always maintained plenty of patience with the guy, and had been quite respectful when asking him for advice.

But now that was no longer necessary.

He was the number one Mechanic in the camp!

"Come with me to the Star Ring and take a look," Gao Gong said directly.

Chawei wore a bitter face on the surface, but inwardly he was dismissive, thinking, all your tech was taught by me, what the hell do you know.

After calling Jes and DK No. 51 over, the four of them used Teleportation and in no time crossed over ten thousand kilometers, arriving at the location of the Head Ring.

According to the usual terminology on a habitable planet, this should be the "Arctic."

Only it wasn’t cold here at all; on the contrary, due to the high concentration of Alpha Element, streaks of Energy Lava evolved out in the Void, making the temperature here extremely high.

This was also the Land of Crystal Core, where the main body of Crystal No. 3 was located.

Crystal No. 3 was a "Little Fireman," and the moment he saw Gao Gong, he started complaining:

"Lord Apostle, your people are too bad. There are so many Energy Mines outside, you could just go mine ore, so why won’t you even spare the Crystal Core Branches? How did they know how many Crystal Core Branches I had here?"

Obviously because you’ve got an insider leak.

Gao Gong grumbled in his heart, but on the surface he naturally comforted the other party.

The Land of Crystal Core was the main body of the Crystal race. As a Crystal grew stronger, its Land of Crystal Core would also expand, evolving "Crystal Core Branches."

Unlike Old Walter, Gao Gong wasn’t the type to drain the pond to catch the fish and ignore the Crystal’s life or death. Unless he came in person, he forbade his subordinates from mining in the Land of Crystal Core.

However, the "Crystal Core Branches" were not within the agreed-on area; they fell into a loophole in the contract.

The reason he knew about this loophole was because No. 4 had quietly tipped him off.

Ever since learning that the Advanced Energy Synthesis Factory could purify its main body, that rabbit-shaped Crystal No. 4 had completely turned into a guide.

While comforting the other party, he walked over to where the "muzzle" was.

It had been mentioned before that the main body of the Planet Cannon was like ring after ring of "headbands" clamped onto the surface of the planet. Each "headband" was called a Star Energy Ring, mainly responsible for extracting Star Core Energy, and the "headband" at the muzzle was called the Head Ring, the most important Star Ring, because besides absorbing Star Energy, it was also responsible for firing the Star Energy Shells.

And even the smallest Head Ring had a diameter of 4,000 kilometers, basically covering nearly half the "Arctic."

The group first took a lap around the Head Ring and discovered a large number of cracks and burn marks on it. Even the surface of the Land of Crystal Core had terrain similar to "moon craters" and "Ring Mountains," as if a meteor had fallen from the sky—not only pounding the surface into a pitted mess, but also burning the Star Ring into pieces.

Gao Gong looked at the scene he had caused, fell silent for a moment, then changed the subject:

"Let me see how your repairs are going."

Chawei nodded, and the next moment, the more than one Million maintenance mechanisms surrounding the Star Ring all started running at once. Dense ranks of mechanical arms, functional drills, energy injection tubes, ion repairers, micro 3D printers, and tens of thousands of other kinds of mechanical maintenance devices all began operating simultaneously.

A lot of outsiders tend to lump Mechanics together with Engineers or civil engineering big shots, but they’re not the same thing at all.

Once a civilization’s level breaks through Level 3, some large-scale mechanical engineering projects that aren’t that technically demanding have long been mass-produced.

The most classic example is the "Planet Mechanic Package."

Buy a Planet Mechanic Package, then find a habitable planet. Very quickly, the whole package will generate tens of thousands of habitable cities according to your specs. And if you’re not satisfied, that’s fine—after-sales teams can deploy one hundred thousand after-sales Robots at any time. As long as you provide energy, they’ll keep fixing it until you’re satisfied.

In this kind of situation, civil engineering big shots and Engineers had long since been laid off in the Interstellar Era.

The main job of a Mechanic was actually to repair and modify Civilization Architecture. For this kind of damaged High-tech Architecture, all the parts had to be custom-made. Only the Tier 3 Parts manufactured by Mechanics could repair them; and they had to repair while simultaneously improving the Blueprint, fine-tuning it until the Civilization Architecture could operate perfectly.

The difficulty and computational demands were no less than creating a single piece of Tier 3 Architecture.

This capability was unique to Mechanics, which was why "Mechanic Creation" was one of the Three Divine Techniques of this Profession.

And even without talking about creativity, just in terms of sheer workload, a single Tier 3 Mechanician could completely match a Planet Mechanic Package.

As tens of thousands of Star Ring shells were pried open and countless energy pipelines and operational Modules were monitored, Gao Gong’s brow also furrowed.

On the surface, the Planet Cannon looked like ring after ring, but its actual energy extraction system had long since infiltrated the interior of the Star Core, binding the entire planet completely.

When he activated Mechanic Maintenance (Expert Level), he could clearly Sense that many Module fissures appeared deep within the planet, and even on the microscopic level.

"Release your control over the maintenance mechanisms and let me handle it."

"You?"

Chawei was stunned for a moment, giving Gao Gong a deeply skeptical look, but his survival instincts forced him to obediently surrender control.

As his Telekinesis was withdrawn, an even more powerful Spiritual Power enveloped all the machines.

Next, all the maintenance mechanisms began their Transformation and upgrades. Dozens of maintenance mechanisms underwent Mechanical Integration, Evolving into a giant mechanism over a hundred meters tall that completely lifted a certain Module. Other maintenance mechanisms began disassembling and shrinking, breaking down from tens of meters tall to palm-sized, or even ant-sized, then crawling into the interior of the Star Ring. Some, under Microscopic Mechanical Manipulation, directly entered the microscopic Domain, turning into countless metal particles invisible to the naked eye and drilling deep into the Planet Cannon.

"Th-this, this—"

Chawei’s eyes were about to pop out.

He knew very well that a Mechanic’s Group Manipulation had several tiers: Mechanical Level, Decomposition Level, and Micro Level.

Mechanical Level was equivalent to a Planet Mechanic Package—the standard level ordinary maintenance Robots could reach, except that a Mechanic could manipulate far more machines.

Decomposition Level meant the Mechanic had preliminarily acquired the ability for microscopic repair. This was the strongest capability on the maintenance side for a Mechanic, because many "mechanical injuries" could only be discovered from a microscopic perspective, and most Civilization Architecture, due to their massive size and difficulty in disassembly, were extremely hard to inspect.

This was exactly the dilemma Chawei had run into.

He did have some unique Telekinesis techniques that could perform decomposition repairs.

But the cost of that method was too high, and the Planet Cannon was too large. Most importantly, he was just a captive, not even a proper wage slave, so why bother~

But now, he felt his entire worldview had suffered a severe blow.

Because the other party had reached Micro Level—that was a tier only Legendary Level Mechanics could attain.

In his memory, every single one of those Mechanics was a highly honored guest of the Federation’s Super Corporations.

With a wave of Gao Gong’s hand, large amounts of alloy raw materials melted, liquefied, gasified, and even broke down to the molecular level, drilling into various energy conduits to begin different forms of repair.

And these advanced repair methods usually required years or even decades of research from a Mechanic.

How on earth had the other side managed this!?