There are clear signs on the ground in the mecha area, so there is no need to navigate Ji Xinghe and others to find the No. 109 operation area, where all the working areas are divided into operation areas, according to the signs there are a total of 150, scattered in an area of 50,000 square meters.

After Ji Xinghe and the others approached, someone questioned them.

"What for?"

Unlike the lieutenant colonel's officer's official business and harsh language, the words of these mechanics are much more life-like.

"Huh? This man looks very old. ”

"Look at what you see, work."

"Oh."

Only one young man reluctantly stood up to stop Ji Xinghe and the others, and the others continued to go their separate ways, without caring about the situation here. In fact, they didn't care about many things, such as the battle between Ji Xinghe and Han Li, no one in this mecha area had ever seen it, and it hadn't been spread for a long time, otherwise there would still be some people who would have come to watch Ji Xinghe out of curiosity.

"Hello, I see you said you want fitters." Ji Xinghe called up his eighth-level fitter certificate and displayed it on the bracelet screen: "I'm here to apply." ”

"Fitter? Level eight? , master, there really is an eight-level fitter. ”

The 109 operation area suddenly fell silent, and the other seven people all turned their heads to look at the young man and Ji Xinghe.

"What did you say?"

"Eighth-level fitter, Master, he's an eighth-level fitter."

The young man's voice was so loud that the people in the nearby operating area turned their heads to look at this side, not because they cared about the excitement around them, but because there was a word in the voice that the young man shouted out seemed to exist only in legends.

"Be quiet, you give me a little quiet."

The middle-aged man who was called Master noticed those eyes, frowned and scolded, and then approached Ji Xinghe and looked at Ji Xinghe's bracelet screen, and when he saw the certificate information on it, his pupils involuntarily contracted.

"Ji Xinghe?" The master read out the name on the certificate, then looked up at Ji Xinghe, and asked with some hesitation, "Do you remember Liu Daoxing?" ”

Ji Xinghe frowned and thought about his memories, and then asked, "You mean that Liu Daoxing from Longzhou Machinery Company?" ”

"Yes, it's him, do you know what he looks like? Or what are the characteristics? ”

"There is a mole on his left cheek, and there are two white hairs on the mole, and he almost lost those two white hairs when he took the exam, and he was sixty years old at the time, because the examination agency allowed Romeo dogs, an artificial intelligence, to use robotic arms to compete, and he had a fight with the examination agency and was almost disqualified from the exam."

"It's really you, you're really an eighth-level fitter." The middle-aged man who was called the master suddenly became excited: "I am Liu Daoxing's grandson, my grandfather told you, he said that you are the youngest and most promising among the twelve people who got the eighth-level fitter certificate at that time." At that time, he wanted you to go to Longzhou Machinery Company, but you had to go back to repair the car, and he was angry for many years because of this. ”

Only then did Ji Xinghe know why the No. 109 operation interval would write that eighth-level fitters do not need to be interviewed and assessed when recruiting fitters, and it turned out that he knew that there were eighth-level fitters in the Federation.

"It's not that I don't go, but it's meaningless, Longzhou Machinery Company also bought that artificial intelligence program at that time. I remember someone said at the time that the assessment was to endorse the AI program, and we were all accompanied. ”

"My grandfather said the same thing, and then my grandfather quit his job, also because with the artificial intelligence program, fitters like him are useless."

"Yes, there are artificial intelligence programs and robotic arms, why do you still recruit level 8 fitters?"

Ji Xinghe was really curious about this problem, he didn't take his certificates seriously before, and even Tu Yuan, who knew that he had those certificates, also thought that he could only repair relatively simple machinery such as cars after coming to Alien, in addition to the fact that the mecha itself is self-contained, but also because the Federation has artificial intelligence programs and robotic arms.

To be able to build multiple bases with a construction area of more than 800,000 square meters, or even more than one million square meters, in such a short period of time on alien planets, artificial intelligence programs have contributed a lot.

Shen Mu also looked at Master Liu curiously, his grandfather's surname was Liu, and he should also be surnamed Liu.

Master Liu's surname is indeed Liu, and his excitement has calmed down: "Because of the resources, the artificial intelligence program needs to be programmed before it can use robotic arms and other equipment to create the parts we need." Although we have a program for building parts for mecha, our resources are limited, and we can't replace it if it breaks, and we can't replace it if it can be repaired, and the AI program can't do it in this regard. ”

The artificial intelligence of the federation can only be regarded as weak artificial intelligence, which refers to intelligent programs and machines that cannot create real reasoning and problem solving, these programs and machines only look intelligent, but there is no real intelligence, and there will be no autonomous consciousness, just human tools, and tools need to have the will of the user to be able to exert their abilities. In a way, this may be a good thing, but it's a bad thing when it can't autonomously repair mechs with different types of damage and severity.

"There are also modifications, custom modifications for mecha warriors, modifications that meet their driving and combat habits." Master Liu added: "These are all things that cannot be done by AI programs, because it cannot think independently, and the computing resources of AI are also limited, and the manufacturing resources allocated to us are also limited, and sometimes we need to build some parts by hand when it is really too late." ”

Ji Xinghe understood, Shen Mu also understood, Shen Mu asked curiously: "Then why don't you just let the Federation expand the recruitment of eighth-level fitters?" When I was in school and graduate school, I didn't hear about the need for this. ”

"Because the eighth-level fitter's exam is too difficult, more difficult than the exam of senior technicians, and it must be senior technicians who can pass the exam, so there is no need to set up a separate exam in this area, we can recruit senior technicians, the Federation has been recruiting, but there are too few people to be enough."

Shen Mu understood, he fell into a misunderstanding, in fact, it was not that the alien was very short of eighth-level fitters, but because Master Liu knew that there was an exam twenty years ago, and someone had obtained the qualification certificate of eighth-level fitters, so he filled in a sentence casually when recruiting fitters.

From the comparison of professional levels, the eighth-level fitter is equivalent to the senior technician of the fitter to a certain extent, both of which are the highest professional level of the fitter, but the name is different. In the past, fitters and many types of work were eight-level system, with eight levels being the highest, and later fitters were five-level systems, with senior technicians being the highest.

Alien has always lacked senior technicians, but there is far more than Ji Xinghe alone with this level, Shen Mu has, Master Liu also has, more than 1,000 mechanics in this mecha area, a quarter of them have the senior technician qualification certificate of fitters, and the rest of the people are not bad, they are not professionally matched, repairing mecha does not only need fitters, energy supply systems, intelligent operating systems, weapon systems, etc.

"That's great, you don't have to repair the car, boss, just stay here and start repairing the mecha, repairing the mecha is more profitable than repairing the car." Shen Mu knew that Ji Xinghe was short of money, so he took the initiative to help Ji Xinghe and asked, "Master Liu, how much can you contribute to Lao Ji for a month?" ”

"Fix a car?" Master Liu didn't answer Shen Mu's question, but looked at Ji Xinghe with some astonishment when he thought of something: "Mr. Ji, you won't always repair cars after that, and you've never touched a mecha, right?" ”

Ji Xinghe thought about it, he really hadn't touched a real mecha, so he nodded: "Yes, I've never touched a mecha." ”

"You didn't study mecha before you came?"

"Nope."

"No, if you come here with this skill level, you will definitely be able to repair mechas, so there must be relevant training."

"The one you're talking about is a normal conscription with professional expertise, I wanted to come ten years ago, but because I was fifty-five years old at the time, they wouldn't let me sign up."

Master Liu was shocked, and then remembered that Ji Xinghe and his grandfather seemed to be the same generation?

"Mr. Ji, are you old this year?"

"Not tall, sixty-five."

It is indeed not high, much younger than Master Liu's grandfather, the fifteen-year gap, but the expression of disappointment still appeared on Master Liu's face, what is the use of an eighth-level fitter who has never touched a mecha? It can indeed be cultivated, after all, there is a saying that there is a common path, and different paths lead to the same end, but sixty-five years old is already the retirement age, so what is the point of training?

Shen Mu also thought of this, his face was full of regret, it would be nice if Lao Ji was younger. As for the old man Le, who talks on paper, he is the professional who raises the most doubts and criticisms, how can he take it seriously? In his plan, he wants to help Ji Xinghe build the old man's music club to change many designs that Ji Xinghe is unwilling to change.

On the other hand, Su He's expression now is only shocked and not regretful, because his mind is still recalling what Ji Xinghe just said: Ten years ago, the fifty-five-year-old Ji Xinghe wanted to enlist in the army with his professional expertise.

And ten years ago, it was the time when Ji Xinghe's son Ji Chenxing landed on another planet, this old man......

This old man looked at the disappointed Master Liu, and suddenly became nervous and unconfident, and he couldn't be an eighth-level fitter when he was older?

"Why don't you let me try?"

His voice was a little pleading, because his granddaughter was beside him.