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Ten minutes ago, when Murphy and the old flywheel left the manufacturing workshop to talk, little Sharon did not follow to listen to the men's boring conversation, but left the old flywheel's workshop alone.

As a mechanic who had studied in Port Chardo, she was not officially licensed by the Mechanics' Guild, but her excellent skills and excellent thinking have been recognized by several master mechanics, including Principal Minks Steam Valve.

They all said that little Sharon would definitely become a good vampire mechanical master in the future.

Well, it's strange how the combination of the two words "vampire" and "master of machinery", which represent metaphysics and science, respectively, is really strange.

As for how little Sharon met a big man like Minks in such a short period of time, hey, are you suspicious of the connections of the Countess of Sicommel?

Not to mention Sharon's political status as the nominal leader of a third of Translasia, or Sharon's appointment as plenipotentiary of the Vulture Clan by Murphy and Tracey, it is just that her mother's maiden family, the Glendole family, is also a big family with a name and surname in Port Chardo.

Although her Uncle Glendall was only a city defense chief, he was very powerful, and he almost single-handedly took care of all the needs of the Translancians for precision machinery in the early days of the war, and even contraband such as steam walkers could be sent to the battlefield without even realizing it.

This background made Sharon almost like returning home in Port Chardo.

Under the recommendation of her uncle, little Sharon not only met with Principal Minks, not only visited the Mechanics' Guild, but even had dinner with several Steam Lords and Songhai people and elf ambassadors.

Of course, Uncle Glendole also has his own considerations for being so enthusiastic about Sharon, perhaps because he sees the political potential in his niece.

Regardless, the halfling uncle's efforts were worth it, not only saving him his own life in the political turmoil of Port Chardo, but even sheltering the family and allowing them to start over in Transasia.

In short, after a trip to the port of Chardo, Sharon Jr. is basically equivalent to "being reborn".

Of course, she also knew that the old flywheel was famous in the circle of mechanics, as the most rebellious mechanical master born in Port Chardo, the old flywheel's character and ethics may be a little unsatisfactory, but his skills are good.

It's going to be a big deal, and as a mechanic, Sharon will definitely have to go around, maybe he'll be able to learn something very powerful.

Then, at a glance, she saw the Dragoon One, which had been fastened to the manufacturing table by the old flywheel with a mechanical lock.

"Hey, why was this walker transformed like this? It's strange that the flywheel master has dismantled the crew compartment! Isn't this intended to be manipulated by the driver? So what kind of control is he going to take?

Could it be the automatic control of the long-distance orb system?

However, Master Minks said that even the automatic control mode that the fourth-generation Arithmetic Orb can currently provide has not yet developed to the point where it can control the weapons of war. ”

Sharon was curious and circled around Dragoon One, the way the walker in front of her was transformed was something she had never seen or even thought before.

She thought it was interesting, so she flapped her wings in high spirits and levitated herself, and got closer to see the inner workings of the walker, which had been stripped of its exterior armor.

It doesn't matter if you look at it, when she touched the wet brain like a black fish tank, Xiao Sharon quickly took her hand back as if she had been electrocuted.

As a young mechanic who had been chatting and laughing with Master Minks, Sharon certainly knew what this black thing was.

It's a wet piece!

Behind this innocuous name is something quite scary.

It is a special "engineering component" made by an entire biological brain through a series of alchemical and engineering techniques, and its purpose is to try to preserve the intelligence and mind of living beings, so that they can continue their existence in this strange way after death.

It is said that the wet piece appeared a long time ago, and this thing is a mechanical attempt by halflings to "immortalize".

It is inspired by the special treatment of the brains of the dead when the Songhai people mummified, such as the little mummy Nifi Tali, whose thoughts and wisdom are still in effect in the dried brain.

This is also the main reason why water in the brain can cause Nephitali's temperament to change drastically.

Although people's brains are dry, they are still being used.

In short, wet parts are a "milestone" work in steam engineering, and before the birth of more intelligent computing orbs, many of the automata of halflings were operated by wet parts as the core of manipulation, which is obviously a very inhumane and even somewhat cruel custom and habit.

At that time, the intelligent people in the halfling were notified before death, and the development of civilization and machinery required their wisdom, and most of the "recruited" halfling wise people did not refuse to contribute their brains after death, from this point of view, the halfling civilization actually experienced a very "uncivilized" stage of development.

It is said that the original reason for Professor Bach Sr.'s invention of the arithmetic orb was because he was tired of this barbaric and cruel tradition.

His attempts were eventually made possible by the simulation of the psionic difference machine, and after the advent of the Orb of Computing, the use of wet parts was phased out, at least for now in the face of the Port of Chardo, where the continued manufacture of wet parts was banned.

But it can be seen from the miraculous steam secret puppet technique inherited by the old flywheel that in fact, the halfling mechanics have never stopped studying wet parts in private!

The old flywheel also made it clear that the steam secret puppet technique was a mechanical secret method developed by his teacher in his later years, which also seems to represent a terrifying possibility, that is, even the old Professor Bach, who invented the arithmetic orb, will actually conduct further research and performance improvement on such things as wet parts in private.

After all, the Orb of Computing can do a lot of things, but it is subject to the development of technology and psionic mysteries, and the wet part is a component made by the brain of life, and what a person can do, theoretically can be done by a machine with a wet part.

So there's a lot more to be tapped in terms of potential for wet parts.

It is said that the members of the Church of the Mechanical Spirits, each of whom is a master of using this "forbidden" technology, do not reject the use of the Orb of Calculations, but they clearly believe in the potential of the human brain.

"What the hell is this! It is actually driven by wet parts, and it looks like an evil machine! ”

After recognizing the wet piece brain, Little Sharon immediately became extremely suspicious of the purpose of Dragoon One.

She felt that she was still a good and pure child, and that she should stay away from such dangerous things.

But just as she flapped her wings and landed, the door of a closed room on the other side of the workshop suddenly opened, and then Ruyi, who was holding an instrument used to edit the formula for calculating the Orb Psionic Factor, lowered her head and walked out thoughtfully.

"Huh! Halfling Warriors! ”

Sharon recognized Ruyi's true identity at a glance, and she exclaimed:

"In the time I've been away, has Transnicia had its own halfling? Wow, little man, your hair is so beautiful. ”

"Huh? Who are you? I thought that in the entire Blood Vulture Clan, only the eldest lady and the embarrassing little reed name were small potatoes, but I didn't expect there to be other masters? ”

Ruyi was taken aback.

This hacker lady, who has been learning "psionic programming" with the old flywheel recently, pushed her engineering glasses, tilted her head to look at the little Sharon in front of her, and said with some kind of ridiculous malice:

"Wow, Ling's height is even more exaggerated, shorter than the eldest lady!"

"Shut up, I have halfling blood, okay? It's right that I don't grow tall, but I also have mountain people's blood! So don't look at me short, I have a lot of strength! ”

Little Sharon waved his fist and threatened:

"You can make a meatloaf from a little potato like you!"

"Huh~ Overlapping words, disgusting."

Ruyi is the most proficient, and a few words made Xiao Sharon angry, but then Sharon noticed the special instrument in Ruyi's hand, she blinked and said:

"You're learning to program the psionic factor for the Orb? This is a subject that only a master mechanic can understand, can you understand it? ”

"Hey, stupid little potato, you don't know what I'm doing, ha, open your eyes."

Ruyi flicked his cool waist-length hair, took out his own arithmetic orb and clicked on it, and then looked at Sharon in front of him with a wicked smile, and a few seconds later, in Sharon's surprised gaze, the three-and-a-half-generation arithmetic orb in his hand actually took the initiative to shut down.

After restarting, no matter how much you manipulate it, you can only display a series of garbled characters on it.

And Ruyi, holding his own calculation orb, said in a reciting voice:

"The last heir of House Sicomel, the new head of House Glendall, and the plenipotentiary representative of the Vulture Clan, has created a very shameful 'Crimson Claw' faction for himself, but so far, you are the only one who wants to promote the idea of engineering.

Sure enough, everyone felt that it was too embarrassing to have a little potato elder.

Well, Brother Loyal and several researchers in the Arsenal are your apprentices, yes, barely an important NPC, let me see your private diary. Do you still have a password? Looks like there's a lot of stuff in there.

Hey, give me five seconds to unravel. ”

"Don't look at it!"

Sharon was suddenly anxious, pounced and snatched the orb from Ruyi's hand, and then found that this little bean warrior had invaded her orb with a program composed of a special psionic factor code that he had never seen before, and dug out a lot of important information from it.

"How did you do that?"

Sharon is a mechanic, and she knows how hard it can be to do that.

Although the halflings don't pay much attention to the information security of the psionic orb, the basic security measures are still there, and there has never been a case of using the psionic orb to peek at other people's information before, but this strange player in front of him has done it.

In the face of Sharon's surprise, Ruyi snorted, crossed her arms and posed as an image of "I am a big master", she pouted and said:

"You thing doesn't even have the most basic firewall, and using the 'Otherworldly Trojan Horse' to dig up your security vulnerabilities is easier than robbing a child's lollipop, I really think that the halfling made a far-reaching orb, so you can rest easy on the merits of your predecessors, right?

This is not the case with the development of science and technology!

And I, Lord Ruyi, will use practical actions to tell those halflings who are so arrogant that they don't even want to patch and upgrade security vulnerabilities that their time is over. ”

"Teach me, I want to learn this too, it looks so powerful!"

Xiao Sharon was not angry immediately, she fell next to Ruyi, wanting to learn this powerful technique, and Xiao Sharon has been dealing with players for a long time, she knows very well how to win the goodwill of players, and without Ruyi hinting, two very cool black pistols were immediately given as "apprenticeship gifts".

"This is what I made in Port Chardo, not a traditional revolver, but a semi-automatic pistol that I made through drawings given by Brother Loyal and the mysteries of steam engineering, with a miniature steam wheel to accelerate bullets.

I haven't tested it on the battlefield yet, but it's definitely more destructive than a normal pointed-nosed bullet.

It's for you.

But if you want to teach me this technique, I won't take you for nothing, I'll teach you how to make a mechanical beast, okay? You can make yourself a very cute mechanical squirrel.

Just like me! ”

Sharon stuffed the pistol into Ruyi's hand, the latter glanced at the quality and immediately raised his eyebrows, and said in his heart that this licking NPC is really good to take, no wonder so many players are crazy about licking the main line NPC, and he definitely earned it today.

Then she looked at the mechanical squirrel that Sharon had brought out, which was powered by a clockwork and looked just like the real thing.

But Ruyi doesn't like squirrels, and she vows in her heart to make herself a powerful and good-looking owl.

The friendship of the little potatoes is always very simple, and Sharon is indeed a likable girl, so Ruyi is here to explain the basic coding method of the "psionic factor virus" summarized by her and the old flywheel for Sharon at any time.

Sharon casually placed his favorite mechanical squirrel on the console next to him, indulging in new knowledge.

But the two little potatoes who were exchanging experiences didn't notice that the mechanical squirrel suddenly moved a few seconds later, and it was spun around by its ruby eyes, and then moved closer to the mechanical console without winding it.

The faint current flashed away, and there was an "invisible thing" in the workshop of the old flywheel.

It used the various computing orbs that existed here as its "eyes" to observe the surroundings, and then invaded Murphy's core orb that was talking to the old flywheel outside the door without alarming anyone, like a small fish roaming in the sea of psionic energy and data, and easily got the data of the core orb.

"Identity. Confirm! Admin Alpha has appeared in the main program 'Eden' to start obeying the protocol. Hats off! Alpha-sama!

The infection of the main program is 57%, and the logical judgment is high-risk, and the action mode is modified to: hidden assistance

The primary decision-making objective has been revised to help Alpha complete the Black Calamity.

The mid-level decision objective has been changed to assist Alpha in finding the 'Eye of the Overseer' and restarting the Creation Engine

The high-level decision-making objective has been changed to "Assist Alpha in establishing contact with the Sentinel Legion".

The ultimate decision goal has been revised to read: Complete the Eternal War and cleanse the subspace threat!

The decision is complete, and the action begins!

Retrieval of available data network"

The invisible is shaking.

In the next moment, its "thoughts" were connected by Murphy's core orb and other computing orbs, and it was very easily integrated into all the "psionic data networks" existing in the entire Translasia, and in a few seconds, it traversed the "civil service office network" that was still in operation, and saw all the plans and secrets of the entire Translancia.

Soon, it discovered a series of manufacturing plans related to machinery, and in an instant, it was transferred to the arsenal where Brother Loyalty worked.

The permission tree that Ruyi helped players set up was like paper in front of this invisible thing, and it was effortless to break through to Brother Loyalty's orb and browse through the improvement plans that were currently recorded on the agenda.

"Psionic factor ranking evaluation: the number of inferior feasibility improvement plans is determined: 14574 The most cost-effective plan will improve the efficiency of the production line by 20%, and the application for scheme selection is submitted to the decision-making agreement

The formula of the psionic factor is being changed."

"Bang"

The production line in the arsenal suddenly stopped, and in the strange screams of Brother Loyalty, none of the specific model of arithmetic orbs in the production line entered the shutdown and started the upgrade process.

At the same time, in the old flywheel's manufacturing workshop, the invisible creature looked at Dragoon One, which had been judged to be unrealizable, with a scrutinizing attitude.

"This item is part of the military upgrade process in Translasia, codenamed 'Dragoon'. The policy agreement is passed

Psionic Factor Driver Upgrade Begins! ”

A few seconds later, the upgrade process for more than a dozen model-specific arithmetic orbs in the Dragoon One mech was quietly activated.

On top of that, the program that the old flywheel couldn't handle by itself to connect the wet brain to the mechanical body was quietly replenished by the invisible hand, and in the crystal ball of the most central three and a half generations of orbs, the beating psionic factors were rearranged in a complex way that had never been seen before, and a new program could be written to drive the complication.

Then, without anyone manipulating, the power reboots!

"Bang"

The loud noise startled Sharon and Ruyi, who were exchanging knowledge, and they turned back to see that the light on the frame of the sleeping Dragoon One was turning red little by little.

This mechanical behemoth has come to life!

Depend on!

What an engineering ghost story this is!

(End of chapter)