Xia Chujian sighed again.
For the first time, she envied these Gene Evolvers.
This was a gap that even a Mecha could not bridge.
Su Buyan put away the virtual display screen and said, "I still need to check your Warplane. After all, it went through a Wormhole transmission without disintegrating, so I think it's a bit different."
Xia Chujian regained her thoughts, changed her approach, and subtly tried to get information from Su Buyan: "The Mechanical Intelligence of my Warplane is pretty good. By the way, I know Starry Sky Fighters can transform into Mecha. Can my Shao Siming Mecha transform into a Starry Sky Fighter?"
Su Buyan laughed and said, "Of course not! You need to understand that although your Shao Siming Mecha can switch to the appearance of a regular Mecha, its essence is still a Shao Siming Mecha, not a true regular Mecha. It only resembles a regular Mecha in appearance, and does not have many of the functions of a regular Mecha."
"So regular Mecha can freely switch between Mecha and Starry Sky Fighters, but the Shao Siming Mecha cannot. Moreover, its Mechanical Intelligence is not equipped with a Warplane piloting control module, so even if it switches to the appearance of a Starry Sky Fighter, it will be difficult for it to fly like a real Warplane."
Although Xia Chujian was somewhat mentally prepared, her heart still sank when she heard Su Buyan's confirmation.
Now she was sure that the Mechanical Intelligence that took over those four Warplanes was most likely not the original Mechanical Intelligence of the Shao Siming Mecha.
So, this could explain why the Star Chart suddenly appeared on the Warplane's display screen and then disappeared.
Because that Star Chart had nothing to do with the Warplane's Mechanical Intelligence, nor with the original Mechanical Intelligence of the Shao Siming Mecha.
Xia Chujian silently returned the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha to the pendant of the Other Shore Flower Necklace on her neck.
She glanced at Su Buyan and couldn't help but ask, "Master, have you ever thought about upgrading the Mechanical Intelligence of the Shao Siming Mecha?"
Su Buyan said, "I have, but you need to know that the Beichen Empire has restrictions on the development of Mechanical Intelligence."
"What restrictions?"
"The performance of the materials can't keep up. If the upgrade is too much, the chip can't handle it and will self-destruct."
Again, it was the materials. In simple terms, she still needed to mine.
Xia Chujian nodded, "I understand, thank you, Master, for clarifying my doubts."
Su Buyan said, "That's good. I'll finish checking the Mecha and call it a day. By the way, are you currently living in the Quan Family Manor?"
Xia Chujian nodded again and said, "Yes, I had a brief encounter with the Quan Family Noble Lady, and she's been very helpful to me."
"Quan Caiwei?" Su Buyan thought for a moment and said, "She is indeed good, but you have no connection with the Quan Family, so it's not good to just live there so casually. I also have a Manor outside Changliu County, not as big as the Quan Family Manor, but it's quite nice, with mountains and water. You can go hunting in the mountains, or go boating and fishing in the lake. Why don't you come live at my place?"
Xia Chujian was very grateful and quickly said, "No need, I didn't plan to stay here for the full ten days anyway. In a couple of days, I'll apply to Marshal Huo to participate in the rescue work in the Asteroid Belt."
"Is that so?" Su Buyan scratched his head and still placed a copper-made smart antique key in her hand, and recorded her fingerprint, saying, "This key is now yours. Whether you go or not, take this key. I have a Robot Butler there, and it will treat you like its master when it sees this key."
Xia Chujian held the key, feeling dizzy as she came down from the Ghost-class Fighter, and found that Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, and Sang Yadi were already waiting outside.
Xia Chujian composed herself and said, "Have you all finished talking?"
Mao Yonggui said, "We finished talking a long time ago. We were sleeping in the Warplane from beginning to end, what's there to ask?"
Chu Qingjuan said faintly, "They didn't believe us and even gave us a lie detector test..."
Xia Chujian's heart skipped a beat, and she asked with a smile, "Hahahaha, did it work?"
"Of course not, because we didn't lie." Chu Qingjuan shrugged, "We just fell asleep!"
Xia Chujian looked at Mao Yonggui and Sang Yadi again.
They both shrugged.
Mao Yonggui said, "I didn't lie, so the lie detector didn't work on us. We fell asleep as soon as we entered the Asteroid Belt, and we were only able to fly through the Asteroid Belt by luck, thanks to your help."
Sang Yadi also nodded, stammering, "Y-yes... We fell asleep as soon as we entered the Asteroid Belt. We didn't see anything."
Xia Chujian frowned slightly: "...Fell asleep as soon as you entered the Asteroid Belt, what does that mean?"
Clearly, they were cooperating with each other at the beginning! They even worked together to kill Jiang Yongbai, who tried to murder them!
Xia Chujian had been worried that these three would not be able to withstand the lie detector and would reveal everything!
But why was it like this? From the descriptions of these three, Xia Chujian realized that they seemed to have completely forgotten what happened when they first entered the Asteroid Belt.
They didn't remember the disorderly flying Star Rock Fragments, the Starry Nebula dust, or the Comet that almost crashed them!
They had clearly discussed how to deal with Jiang Yongbai...
Xia Chujian smiled at them, thinking, This is good.
Those memories belonged only to her.
Perhaps before long, she wouldn't remember them either.
...
The four of them rode the Quan Family's large Flying Vehicle back to the Quan Family Manor, and it was only a little after three in the afternoon.
Quan Caiwei had been waiting for them in the detached villa where they were staying.
When they returned safely, she smiled and stood up, saying, "You're back, I'm relieved. Rest for a while, tonight my brother and I will take you to Linfeng Club in the city for dinner and the opera."
Xia Chujian really wanted to rest, but catching the excited expressions of her roommates out of the corner of her eye, she immediately said, "Great! Then we'll rest for a while, see you tonight!"
Quan Caiwei said, "I'll have someone send clothes over for you. Don't mind them, there wasn't time to have them custom-made, so I bought a few sets temporarily, but they're all brand new."
Xia Chujian said, "How could we mind? Caiwei, we're grateful that you're willing to buy us new clothes!"
Quan Caiwei patted her shoulder and left with a smile.
After Quan Caiwei left, Chu Qingjuan immediately said excitedly, "We're going to see the opera too! I've never seen an opera before! I heard that opera has to be seen live to be interesting!"
"I... I heard that opera is entertainment for the Nobles..."
Sang Yadi spoke a little slower, stuttering less.
Mao Yonggui looked at her military uniform and said, "We only brought our uniforms, luckily the Quan Noble Lady is so thoughtful!"
Xia Chujian said, "Caiwei is indeed very thoughtful, but everyone shouldn't feel pressured. Their kind of great Nobles are too different from us in status. We can't repay them even if we wanted to. Of course, they don't expect anything from our class either."
The three roommates breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, indicating they understood.
Then they each returned to their rooms to freshen up and wash up properly.
After Xia Chujian returned to her bedroom, she went straight to the bathroom.
She turned on the shower in the bathroom, then turned off the bathroom light, and put on the Shao Siming Mecha again.
This time, she wore the butterfly-wing helmet, stared at the display screen of the helmet's eyepiece, and after a moment of silence, said softly, "Come out, I know you're in there."
There was no response on the eyepiece display screen.
Xia Chujian cleared her throat, "If you don't come out, I'll take out the chip and smash it, and ask my Master for a new one."
But there was still no response on the eyepiece display screen.
It was as if she was mentally ill, talking to herself in the air.
Xia Chujian was indignant, holding the Other Shore Flower Necklace case, and continued to threaten, "I know you don't want me to tell my Master about your existence, and you don't want me to tell Marshal Huo. If you don't come out, I won't dare to use you again, I'll just return you to my Master and have him give me a new Mechanical Intelligence chip!"
After this sentence, a neat line of mechanical font appeared on her helmet eyepiece display screen.
"Master, I am the third-generation upgraded product of the Shao Siming Mecha's Mechanical Intelligence, at your service."
Although Xia Chujian was mentally prepared, her eyes still went dark, and she almost couldn't stand in the bathroom.
She leaned against the wall of the bathroom, her mood so complicated that it was about to explode! Embarrassment, panic, fear, but also a hint of excitement, surprise, and stimulation.
It was as if everything she thought she was doing secretly was being watched by another person in secret.
Her first thought was to kill the "Mechanical Intelligence" to silence it! Socially dead, too socially dead! She was silent for a long time before saying, "You were the one who helped me pilot the Warplane in the Asteroid Belt, provided the Star Chart, switched to the Fire-Red Phoenix Mecha form, and even explored mineral deposits and repaired the Mecha?"
The eyepiece display screen was also silent for a while, before the previous line disappeared and a second line appeared.
"Master, you might as well think of me as a Mechanical Intelligence from five hundred years in the future."
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
Her toes curled awkwardly, probably making a hole in the slippers.
This deadly Mechanical Intelligence actually knew that she was pretending to be a Mechanical Intelligence from five hundred years in the future! Unfazed, she sneered, "But, are you?!"
Eyepiece display screen: "...No."
"So, you dare to lie to my face? You need to know that I won't carry a Mechanical Intelligence that I can't control with me."
As Xia Chujian spoke, she decisively put away the Shao Siming Mecha, including the helmet.
The helmet's eyepiece display disappeared before Xia Chujian's eyes. Without hesitation, she took out her Qu Zhong 110 Hand Cannon and aimed it at the Other Shore Flower Necklace pendant.
At worst, she would just say that the Shao Siming Mecha was broken and ask her Master Su Buyan for another one.
Just as she was about to fire, a virtual display screen appeared above the necklace pendant, with several lines of mechanical text on it.
"Master can rest assured. After the upgrade, my underlying program logic requires me to first protect Master's safety, and second, obey all of Master's orders. When the second requirement conflicts with the first, the first requirement takes precedence."
"Master, please don't destroy me. I remember the star chart back to Eze Star and can help Master find more Exotic Metal deposits."
Xia Chujian was slightly stunned: "...Eze Star?"
This is the second update! There will be a new update at 12:05 tonight, a big chapter.
Hehe, did my darlings guess it?
Chujian is not Wen Yinuo. Because Mou Han never repeats herself in her writing.
My dear darlings, please vote for Moon Tickets! Make Mou Han proud of you all!
(Miss Chujian's logic ())
Shouting again: I've been so busy lately!
Almost working ten hours every day, no rest on weekends o(╥﹏╥)o.
Why did I think of starting a new novel (_).
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