Planet-Level Mechanic

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After hearing Su Ming's words, Zhong Li and Locke were both somewhat surprised.

Su Ming looked at Locke and smiled. "But you'll have to take me to the workbench. I'm still not very familiar with this place!"

Locke came back to his senses and hurriedly said, "No problem! The workbench is this way. Follow me!"

With that, Locke led Su Ming and Warren to the Mechanical Repair Room aboard the spaceship.

Su Ming looked around. Almost all the mechanical components being repaired in the Mechanical Repair Room were Surface level.

Seeing this, a trace of surprise flashed through Su Ming's eyes.

Seeing this, Locke quickly explained with a smile, "Planet-level mechanics all have their own private workshops. You'll have one later too. This is the public repair room, provided for Surface level mechanics to use."

After hearing Locke's explanation, realization dawned on Su Ming's face.

Su Ming did not waste any words. He immediately found a workbench and brought over Locke's battle saber.

"The Warrior Company's Thermal Battle Saber, a Planet-level Weapon, with an energy level of around 2,000. It's considered an entry-level model..."

At a glance, Su Ming saw the condition of the Thermal Battle Saber and muttered to himself.

Hearing Su Ming's words, Locke nodded repeatedly beside him.

Unfortunately, Su Ming had already focused his mind entirely on the mechanical repair, and he had not intended for Locke to answer his muttering.

Su Ming got to work at once, directly taking apart the Mechanical Battle Saber before him piece by piece.

However, Su Ming was too focused on disassembling the Mechanical Battle Saber. At that moment, he failed to notice that soldiers carrying damaged weapons had been wandering around. After failing to find the newly arrived mechanic aboard the spaceship, they came to the Mechanical Repair Room to try their luck.

When they saw the unfamiliar face disassembling a Mechanical Battle Saber on the workbench, along with Zhong Li and Locke watching the mechanic disassemble it, how could these soldiers not realize that the mechanic at the workbench was the newly arrived Planet-level mechanic?

The soldiers' eyes lit up at once, and they hurried over, quietly watching Su Ming repair the Mechanical Battle Saber.

"The blade is curled, and the reinforcement system in the hilt has been damaged. That's why this Mechanical Battle Saber has become extremely fragile. It can't be swung with too high an energy level at all, or it will snap immediately!"

With just one glance, Su Ming determined the problem with the Mechanical Battle Saber.

The reinforcement system was the most important part of a close-combat weapon.

The reinforcement system could make a close-combat weapon incomparably hard, allowing it to withstand the application of various energy levels.

For Gene Warriors without a Brain Domain Level, close-combat mechanical weapons were the most commonly used.

The reinforcement system determined how high a Physical Level the weapon could withstand when swung.

Now that the reinforcement system was damaged, based on the original material of the Mechanical Battle Saber, Su Ming estimated that it could withstand energy impacts of at most 200 points.

Any higher, and the Mechanical Battle Saber would shatter outright.

Based on Su Ming's estimate, Locke's energy level should be around 800 or 900 points, making him a high-grade third-level Gene Warrior.

With an energy level like that, a Mechanical Battle Saber without a reinforcement system would probably break with a single swing.

No wonder Locke had found it difficult to undertake missions after his Mechanical Battle Saber was damaged.

Su Ming did not hesitate. In just a few quick motions, he disassembled the Mechanical Battle Saber into all its individual components.

A large number of components were placed on the workbench.

There were several hundred of them, five or six times as many as the components in a Surface level weapon.

Planet-level mechanical weapons were indeed more complex than ordinary Surface level mechanical weapons.

But to Su Ming, that level of complexity was nothing.

Disassembling the Mechanical Battle Soldier took him less than ten minutes.

Seeing Su Ming so cleanly disassemble every component of the Mechanical Battle Soldier without using a scanner, the onlookers exchanged glances, each seeing the surprise in the other's eyes.

This speed... The other mechanic aboard the spaceship probably couldn't do it this quickly!

Zhong Li in particular had often seen the Planet-level mechanic who had originally been stationed aboard the spaceship disassemble mechanical weapons.

Not only did he need a scanner, but out of every hundred components, about five would suffer secondary damage during disassembly.

It also took him nearly half an hour to finish disassembling them.

For a Planet-level mechanic, that was already considered quite good.

But Su Ming before them not only did not need a scanner, he had also spent less than ten minutes on the disassembly. Most importantly, there had been zero damage.

Seeing this, a strange, pleasantly surprised look filled Zhong Li's eyes as she looked at Su Ming.

Su Ming paid no attention to the gazes of the outsiders. He remained immersed in his own mechanical repair process.

Soon, following his usual practice, Su Ming completely melted away all the engraved markings on the Mechanical Battle Saber.

Locke's eyes widened, but recalling Su Ming's nimble movements just now, he ultimately did not dare say anything.

After melting away all the engraved markings, Su Ming picked up the carving tool beside him and concentrated on engraving his own markings onto the Mechanical Battle Saber!

As the number of engravings increased, Su Ming had now developed a carving style of his own.

At this moment, engraving them directly was second nature to him.

After roughly half an hour, Su Ming had engraved special markings onto each of the more than one hundred components.

Next came the most crucial step: reassembly.

However... after studying the components of the Mechanical Battle Saber for a long while, Su Ming raised his head and looked at Locke.

"What is it, Little Master Su Ming?" Locke asked. Seeing Su Ming's expression, his heart tightened, and he thought that something had gone wrong with his Mechanical Battle Saber.

"Do you... have a Star level blade?" Su Ming asked curiously.

"Hm?" Locke froze, then asked in confusion, "A Star level blade can be bought if you want one, but putting a Star level blade together with the other Planet level components... wouldn't that be a bit wasteful of the blade's quality?"

Su Ming shook his head. "In my hands, it won't be wasted. Just buy it."

Locke was completely puzzled, but since Su Ming was repairing it for free, Locke still shook his head and followed Su Ming's instructions, spending a considerable amount of military merit to purchase a Star level blade.

"Here, Little Master Su Ming!"

A few seconds later, Locke took a Star level blade out of his storage space.

Su Ming froze. "Ah? You bought it that quickly?"

Hearing Su Ming's words, Zhong Li and Locke immediately laughed. "Little Master Su Ming, this is the small Spatial Transmitter the Empire provides its soldiers. Anything exchanged with military merit is transmitted directly into the storage space through spatial transmission. It's very convenient!"

Su Ming froze again, then could not help sighing in admiration at the army established by the Empire's government.

They really were loaded.

The cost of just this one Spatial Transmitter might already be no less than 100,000 Star Coins, and every soldier had one.

Compared to them, mercenaries were truly the sort nobody cared about. They had to rely on themselves for everything!

"All right, bring me the blade. I'll install it for you now!"

Su Ming did not delay. He immediately took Locke's Star level blade and...