Over the next week, Xiao Ran spent his days in the hangar and his nights in his room, busy from beginning to end. While handling the finishing work on the new machine, he also had to keep a constant eye on the situation in Area 19. Even while resting, the moment his communicator alerted him, he would open his eyes and give Cornelia the fastest reply possible. During the day, while he worked, his Personal Terminal remained floating where Xiao Ran could see it with a glance.
The people in the hangar who worked with Xiao Ran to complete the final touches on the machine had long grown accustomed to this. They were already a group controlled by Xiao Ran through both GEASS and telekinesis. Seeing him display such extraordinary power only filled them with even more fanatical loyalty toward him.
After a week, they had found more than two hundred issues with the machine, large and small, that needed to be modified. There were no major problems; they were all minor issues that could be fixed with time and careful adjustment. Even with complete Technical Blueprints serving as what was practically a foolproof guide, the finished machine had still ended up with so many small flaws. Lack of experience and insufficient understanding of the technology were the key reasons for those problems. One or two minor flaws were nothing, but if more than two hundred flaws erupted at once, that in itself would be a huge problem.
Individually, those many small issues did not take much time to handle, but solving them all affected the whole system. The Technicians originally working three shifts were changed to two shifts. They could have been pushed into an endless work cycle without rest, but Xiao Ran forcibly implemented the two-shift system so