Super Mothership
Inside the hangar, the , still carrying traces of war and gunpowder smoke, stood quietly in place.
“Messiah, do you think… this Ghost Captain really has the ability to repair the Red Dragon’s core? That’s a legendary mech, after all!”
Red Dragon and Messiah stood in the distance, watching Nie Yun carefully inspect the Red Dragon from every angle.
“It’s not impossible. After all, during the Star Cross Knights’ operation… the Machine Race must have obtained quite a few mech wrecks. With their level of technology, deciphering some of the secrets behind a legendary mech core shouldn’t be difficult…”
Because of that, in Messiah’s understanding, legendary mechs themselves were not considered particularly secret in the eyes of the Machine Race.
And with how confident Nie Yun appeared, it was easy for people to assume he possessed extensive knowledge about legendary mechs. So when Nie Yun proposed attempting to repair the Red Dragon, neither Messiah nor Red Dragon even considered the issue of technological secrecy.
If Nie Yun knew what the two were thinking, he would probably give them a sidelong grin…
Who told you I’m part of the Machine Race?
“Then could it be that the Machine Race has already mastered the ability to mass-produce legendary mechs?” Red Dragon frowned.
“The possibility is low.” Messiah shook her head.
“The key technological barrier behind energy crystallization lies in extreme energy compression! A legendary mech core is essentially an ‘energy transformer’ that converts low-pressure energy into high-pressure energy.
Besides requiring an incredibly complex and precise energy circuit structure, the more critical factor is the superconductive material used to construct the energy compression circuits.
To withstand the load of ultra-high-density energy, the material’s energy conductivity requirements are practically terrifying!
Even thousands of years later, our Wolf Empire still hasn’t managed to crack the manufacturing method for this material. That’s the real reason why legendary mechs have always remained limited editions.
The Machine Race is indeed much stronger than us in the field of mechanical constructs, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they managed to decipher the structure of the energy circuits. But in materials science, they’re only about on par with us. Theoretically, there’s no possibility of some massive technological leap!”
Although Messiah was merely a pirate leader, she seemed extremely knowledgeable about legendary mechs, casually speaking of many closely guarded secrets.
“Mm! I was overthinking it.” Red Dragon let out a sigh of relief.
If the Machine Race truly could mass-produce legendary mechs, then before long, the Wolf Empire would probably once again face a new wave of the “Mechanical Catastrophe.”
After all, aside from Silver Dawn, the other two great Mechanical Duke factions had always been clamoring for revenge on behalf of their leader, Gaia.
Still, seeing Nie Yun wandering around in front of his beloved mech made Red Dragon uneasy.
“You think a combat robot like him could really know how to repair mechs?”
“Well, we don’t have any way to fix it anyway. Might as well treat a dead horse as if it were alive.” Messiah spread her hands helplessly.
At present, only the Imperial Royal Family possessed the complete repair technology and equipment for legendary mech cores.
But for contraband goods like the Red Dragon hidden away in a pirate den, they obviously weren’t going to provide any “after-sales warranty service”…
While the two were talking, Nie Yun had already basically completed the external model scan and sampling of the Red Dragon.
He turned around and gestured toward Red Dragon in the distance, pointing at the mech.
Red Dragon hesitated for a moment, but ultimately raised his hand and spoke into the personal terminal on his wristwatch.
“Little Fire, enable core maintenance authorization and enter maintenance mode!”
“Authorization confirmed. Entering maintenance mode!”
Hiss—
The Red Dragon in front of Nie Yun soon opened its chest cavity amid a series of pleasant metallic sliding sounds.
Dazzlingly precise coupled components unfolded layer by layer like flower petals, revealing at the very center a silver core roughly the size of a basketball.
Five layers of metal armor, three kinetic buffering mechanisms, two security locks, one energy insulation system…
“This level of protection… even if the energy reactor exploded, it probably still wouldn’t damage the thing inside, huh?” Nie Yun secretly clicked his tongue in amazement.
He then turned his gaze toward the legendary and mysterious “mech core” itself…
“Hm?” Nie Yun suddenly let out a surprised sound.
Why does this thing… feel strangely familiar somehow?
Beep! Please enter the core activation password!
A long verification command input box appeared on the silver core.
As the symbolic high-end military force of the Wolf Empire’s royal family, the core of a legendary mech naturally possessed an extremely advanced security firewall to prevent technological leaks.
And this was the first obstacle any outsider attempting to pry into it had to face.
If the password was entered incorrectly more than three times, the core would self-destruct. Likewise, if it suffered external attacks exceeding a certain threshold, it would also self-destruct.
Red Dragon and Messiah watched Nie Yun expectantly.
This core was exceptionally sturdy and extraordinarily difficult to destroy.
What kind of exquisite electronic decryption technique was he planning to use to crack the password? Or was he simply going to dismantle the core casing with butcher-like precision?
…
This thing… impossible! It must be an illusion!
Nie Yun reached out uncertainly, but the moment his palm touched the silver core, his entire body trembled as though struck by electricity!
Th-this… what exactly is this?!
He could clearly sense that, at the point where the hand of this avatar came into contact with the mech core, within the microscopic world invisible to the naked eye, countless mechanical insects touched the unknown substance on the other side, and their insect-like limbs immediately began locking together with a series of click-click-click sounds, embedding themselves tightly into the opposing structure as though forming a seamless connection.
Then, one after another, they transmitted the same message…
“Homologous physical interface detected. Would you like to establish a connection?”
“Homologous physical interface detected. Would you like to establish a connection?”
“……”
The endless stream of messages appearing in his mind left Nie Yun completely stunned.
Homologous physical interface?
What did that mean? Homologous with whom? The mechanical insects?
But… how was that possible?
Judging from the perception transmitted by the mechanical insects, the microscopic structure of this silver material was extraordinarily peculiar.
Its constituent material units were incredibly tiny—smaller than atoms, yet larger than atomic nuclei—roughly ten thousand times the size of an individual mechanical insect.
These “particles” were arranged in orderly patterns similar to atoms, forming a dense metallic state.
However, these “particles” were not the smallest microscopic structure. What composed these particles were tens of thousands of even tinier “things.”
And if Nie Yun’s perception wasn’t mistaken, those things seemed to be… mechanical insects?
Yes!
Tens of thousands of mechanical insects layered together in complex spatial structures, forming one strange “insect sphere” after another. And these “insect spheres” were precisely the fundamental units composing this material!
So his intuition had been right all along—this thing was actually… Mithril?
Who would have thought that mechanical insects stacking together like LEGO blocks to form spatial structures could cause such an enormous leap in material performance?!
It was said that the key material used in the Wolf Empire’s legendary mechs came from the ruins of an advanced civilization.
Could it be… that they were referring to Mithril?
Although it was a variant possessing a far more complex spatial structure, judging from the information transmitted by the mechanical insects, this material… was undoubtedly also a creation of the Iris Civilization!
Earth, Gemini, the Wolf Empire…
Across regions separated by thousands of light-years, creations of the Iris Civilization had appeared again and again.
Was this really just a coincidence?
“Homologous physical interface… meaning that although the mechanical insects’ system was ‘formatted’ after merging with me, their physical structure itself never changed. So the ‘USB interface’ is still the same standard?
In that case… should I try this so-called connection?”
That question only lingered briefly in Nie Yun’s mind before the entire swarm of mechanical insects unanimously approved it!
After being separated for so many years, there was no reason not to acknowledge their long-lost “brothers”!
Not to mention that Nie Yun had long coveted the legendary mech’s energy crystallization technology. There was no way he’d refuse to bite into a duck that had already flown into his mouth!
Still, to be safe, Nie Yun prepared himself to sever the mental link at any moment.
Even if this thing tried to pull some sort of “electronic body-snatching,” at worst he would only lose a single avatar.
“Establish the connection!”
The moment Nie Yun issued the command, a massive flood of information instantly poured into his mind…
Gradually, Nie Yun’s eyes began to shine brighter and brighter.
“So that’s how it is… so that’s the truth!”
Then Nie Yun’s gaze shifted toward the mech core beneath his palm.
Within the microscopic world, at the point where the two made contact, the incomparably dense insect spheres seemed to hear the command of an insect king. Layer by layer, they began peeling apart like onions.
The stripped-off mechanical insects were rapidly “formatted” by Nie Yun and absorbed into his own mechanical insect army, all with an indescribably natural harmony…
Beneath Nie Yun’s palm, the unimaginably intricate and precise energy circuits within the mech core gradually revealed themselves before his eyes…
What password? What secret code?
This… was the true way to open a mech core!
TL Note- Theory....
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