Xia Chujian lowered her eyes, looking at the data cables that had snapped into several pieces, and murmured, "Could it be that they were overused in the Asteroid Belt, so they weren't as sturdy anymore?"
Su Buyan said, "That's probably the only explanation... Anyway, Marshal Huo has already sealed the Seventh Material Warehouse of the Flying Base on Kanli Star. We can find some new data cables from there to try later."
Xia Chujian nodded, then remembered something else and quickly said, "Master, I'm so grateful for the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha you gave me this time, especially its Mechanical Intelligence..."
She had originally wanted to say that she was able to fly through the Asteroid Belt smoothly because of this Mechanical Intelligence.
But before she could finish her sentence, the Other Shore Flower pendant she was holding emitted a faint electric current again, stimulating the fingers holding the pendant.
It didn't hurt, but there was an undeniable tingling sensation.
Xia Chujian silently closed her mouth again.
Su Buyan, while tidying up the pile of data cables, said, "Shao Siming's Mechanical Intelligence? Is there a problem with it? Do you want me to check it?"
Xia Chujian steeled her heart, took off the pendant, and said, "I don't know if there's a problem, how about you check it?"
Su Buyan took the Other Shore Flower pendant and put it directly into his instrument to start checking the Mecha's various states.
From the use and damage degree of the Mecha material, to the computing power of the Mechanical Intelligence, and then to the memory.
In short, it took half an hour to get the test results.
Su Buyan looked at it and said with satisfaction, "Not bad, not bad. The test results show that you haven't used this Mecha much. The degree of wear and tear is zero. The Energy Block is in a fully loaded state, and the computing power is normal. There's nothing in the memory, it shows that you haven't used this Mecha in the past month, right?"
Alarm bells rang in Xia Chujian's mind.
How could she not have used it for a month?!
Just a few days ago, on that Miniature Planet, her Mecha was severely damaged! It was almost corroded and pierced by that venom.
Later, she used Exotic Metal Eternal Crystal to repair it, and the Mecha was even upgraded! She remembered the layer of blue light that appeared on the outside of the Mecha...
But Su Buyan didn't detect anything unusual.
Xia Chujian couldn't help but glance at Su Buyan's testing equipment and said, "Is this thing accurate?"
The testing instrument looked like a small suitcase. When opened, the complex instruments inside looked very high-end.
Su Buyan rolled his eyes at her and said, "Of course it's accurate. Otherwise, would I carry it with me?"
If there was no problem with the testing instrument, then there was a problem with her Shao Siming Mecha.
Xia Chujian was now certain.
She originally thought she could tell Su Buyan everything, but now, there were some things that even Su Buyan couldn't be told.
Su Buyan took out the pendant and put it on Xia Chujian himself, saying, "Don't be stingy, use it when you need to. This thing can save your life at critical moments, remember that?"
Xia Chujian could only nod blankly.
Su Buyan turned around and took out a box of Energy Blocks from his backpack, as well as two boxes of Mecha-specific Black Silver Bullets, and handed them to her, saying, "One Energy Block can be used for a year, and there are five in this box, which should be enough for you to use for at least five years."
"There are fifty bullets in this box, and two boxes have a hundred. The power is too great, so of course you can't use them as regular bullets. Good steel should be used on the blade, understand?"
Su Buyan really nagged like a teacher, explaining some precautions to Xia Chujian.
Xia Chujian finally came back to her senses and suddenly asked, "Can you detect how many special Black Silver Bullets are left in my Mecha?"
She remembered that she had fired at least twenty shots on the Miniature Planet.
One shot wiped out a large area of those huge Remnant Species monsters, directly dissolving them, which was even more ruthless than grinding bones to ashes...
Among them, two bullets were used to deal with Tayam in the sky.
In addition, she had used one before, when dealing with Bunis, so she should have at most twenty-nine Black Silver Bullets left.
That instrument should be able to detect it, right?
Unexpectedly, Su Buyan said, "There are about forty-eight left, you used them very sparingly!"
Xia Chujian: "..."
There was no way to explain it.
She was silent for a while and said, "Master, the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha you gave me, was it upgraded later? How many forms can it switch to?"
Saying that, she pressed the button on the Other Shore Flower pendant, and the Black Silver Mecha immediately enveloped her completely.
Putting on this mecha again, she noticed something different.
Before, on the Miniature Planet, she had repaired the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha with the Eternal Crystal. After the repair was completed, the Black Silver shell of the mecha had a layer of faint blue light! But now, the mecha was still the same Black Silver color as before, but it was not shrouded in the faint blue light on the outer layer of the mecha.
It was as if it had never been damaged or repaired at all.
Su Buyan looked at his work with satisfaction and said, "It can be switched to a conventional mecha model, like the ones equipped by the Military, ordinary type, medium type, advanced type, and even the 150-meter-high Starry Sky Mecha, which is barely possible."
Xia Chujian repeatedly pondered her words in her heart before cautiously asking, "Are there only these types? If I want to switch to another appearance, is it possible?"
"What other appearance?"
"...Uh, I can't really say..."
Su Buyan didn't care and said, "Let me show you the mecha shapes stored in the mecha's memory, see if it can give you some inspiration?"
Xia Chujian nodded: "Can it only switch to the mecha shapes stored in the Mechanical Intelligence's memory?"
"Of course, otherwise, without program control, how would it know what to switch to? You need to know that a mecha is essentially a machine. Therefore, it must follow strict program control. Without giving it instructions, it doesn't know how to operate."
Xia Chujian's mood was slightly complicated as she looked at a virtual display screen pulled up by Su Buyan.
Then, the several mecha shapes that could be switched appeared on the display screen.
There were only four types: ordinary, medium, advanced, and Starry Sky.
Including the mecha's original Butterfly Wing Helmet shape, there were only five shapes in total.
However, if it could only switch to these five forms, then where did the fiery red Phoenix shape she switched to on that Miniature Planet come from?! She even switched out two mechanical wings! The key was that the function of those wings was not bad, they could fly and fight, and the gust of wind swept away a large area!
Xia Chujian murmured, "Are there really only these five? If I want to switch to another shape, then it... can't switch?"
Su Buyan said, "Of course it can't switch, because there is no established program inside, these metals cannot self-assemble."
Then he said, "I understand what you mean, you want to change a few more like those Star Network games change character skins, right?"
Xia Chujian forced a smile and said, "I'm not that whimsical."
Su Buyan said, "Let me put it this way, I am developing a mecha of a higher level than Shao Siming, and one of the functions is very close to your idea just now."
"I want to achieve free switching of the mecha's appearance. As long as the mecha operator sees any shape, they can switch to that shape!"
Xia Chujian's eyes lit up: "Is it really possible?!"
If that was the case, then it could explain everything that happened on the Miniature Planet.
Because the fiery red Phoenix shape she switched out at that time was not something she imagined out of thin air.
She borrowed the appearance of the fiery red bird she saw on that fairy-tale-like stone mountain at that time!
Of course, it was not exactly the same.
Because she didn't like the look of the red bird's head, it was relatively small and not majestic, so she used the shape of the Phoenix's head that she had seen on the Star Network.
In the Beichen Empire, the Phoenix is a legendary bird, which does not exist in reality.
But those two big wings were definitely the wings of that fiery red bird.
Su Buyan looked at Xia Chujian's hopeful appearance and said regretfully, "This function is just an idea, because there are not enough Special Metals to realize my idea."
Xia Chujian's eyes flickered slightly, and she quickly said, "Master, what kind of metal do you need? Can you give me a clue, I will go through fire and water to find it for you!"
Su Buyan laughed and patted her head again, saying, "Good disciple! You know how to care for your Master! Really a good disciple! - But you don't need to do mining. Someone from the Special Security Bureau is going to mine, we masters and disciples just need to wait."
Xia Chujian pursed her lips and said, "Master, I am also a staff member of the Special Security Bureau, I also want to go mining for you!"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Su Buyan immediately stopped her sternly, "It doesn't matter if you say this in front of me, if Marshal Huo knows, he will really send you to mine! Do you think mining is a good job?! It's a narrow escape from death, do you know!"
"I'm not afraid!"
"This is not a question of whether you are afraid or not!" Su Buyan almost slapped himself in the mouth, making you talk too much!
He earnestly dissuaded her: "Chujian, you are not a Gene Evolver. To tell you the truth, the more mineral deposits a planet has, the greater the danger. If there are more rare Exotic Metals, it's terrible, not only are there Exotic Beasts with strong Mental Strength everywhere, but also the natural environment of those planets themselves is extremely unstable!"
"Because only an unstable natural environment can give birth to more rare mineral deposits!"
"But only when you get to those places will you know that no weapon is more terrifying than the natural disasters of nature!"
Xia Chujian couldn't help but nod in agreement.
She couldn't agree more with that point!
That Miniature Planet was like a living Hell! She had never seen volcanoes like that on Guiyuan Star. On that planet, they were erupting and growing all the time. It was really... incomprehensible how the natives survived in that environment.
Su Buyan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw her nod, and said, "Remember, don't even mention this kind of thing in the Special Security Bureau in the future. Besides, with your current level, you can't take on those high-level missions anyway, so why waste your energy?"
Xia Chujian thought to herself, Huo Yushen had said the same thing. Perhaps that kind of place was indeed not suitable for people like them whose genes could not evolve.
She really knew that in that place, she, as an ordinary person, would die immediately without the protection of a Mecha.
But Meng Guanghui and other high-level Gene Evolvers could breathe freely in that place even without wearing helmets.
That was the difference.
Da da da, the first update is here.
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