Time passed day by day.
Before long, a week had passed since Su Ming's net worth had skyrocketed.
During that week, Su Ming had earned a large amount of Merit Points, roughly 160,000 in total.
He had also gained a great many Starlight Points.
After excluding the Starlight Points he needed for cultivation each day, Su Ming could save roughly 400 Starlight Points daily.
After a week, that amounted to a full 2,800 Starlight Points!
Today, Su Ming excitedly tapped into the Merit System.
He had finally accumulated enough Merit Points to exchange for the Humanoid E-Class Advanced Mecha he had dreamed of.
For this reason, Su Ming had even turned down a day of work. Today, he planned to stay in the dormitory and focus on studying the knowledge of the Humanoid E-Class Advanced Mecha.
"Private Su Ming, please confirm whether you wish to spend 150,000 Merit Points to exchange for the knowledge and blueprints of the Humanoid E-Class Advanced Mecha. Once exchanged, the Merit Points cannot be refunded!"
A prompt from the Merit System soon appeared.
Hearing the electronic prompt, Su Ming did not hesitate at all and directly selected confirm.
"Beep... Private Su Ming has spent 150,000 Merit Points and successfully purchased the knowledge and blueprints of the Humanoid E-Class Advanced Mecha. The exchange items are now being transmitted to Private Su Ming..."
"Beep... The exchange items—the knowledge and blueprints of the Humanoid E-Class Advanced Mecha—have entered Private Su Ming's storage space. Please check and receive them!"
After hearing the successive electronic prompts, excitement appeared on Su Ming's face. He immediately took the blueprints out of his storage space.
A thick book and a pile of blueprints suddenly appeared in the dormitory.
Warren, who was standing nearby, looked on with intense envy in his eyes.
The knowledge and blueprints Su Ming had purchased were core Imperial knowledge, protected and restricted by Imperial law. Even Su Ming could not hand the books and blueprints to Warren for viewing.
Otherwise, they would violate the Imperial Core Knowledge Protection Act, and both of them would end up in prison.
Unless Warren purchased the corresponding knowledge himself, in which case it would no longer be an issue.
Su Ming did not hesitate. He quickly opened the book and began reading.
Mecha!
That was the ultimate goal of every mechanic.
Only mechanics capable of assembling mecha could be considered to have truly entered the field. Such mechanics enjoyed an extremely high status in interstellar society.
That was because mecha were strategic weapons, not ordinary weapons.
Every mecha possessed a certain degree of strategic significance to the military and wielded unparalleled power!
For example, every component of the Humanoid E-Class Advanced Mecha was made from mechanical parts no lower than Star level. Some critical systems even used Star Cluster level mechanical parts.
If a mecha were truly assembled, it would be equivalent to covering his entire body with countless Star level and Star Cluster level mechanical weapons!
A single Star level mechanical weapon was enough for Locke's team to turn the tide of battle and accomplish the feat of killing a Level 5 Furball Monster while only being Level 4 Gene Warriors.
The power unleashed by countless Star level and Star Cluster level mechanical weapons would be extraordinarily terrifying.
Even a single Star Cluster level mechanical weapon would be completely insignificant before a mecha!
If Su Ming successfully assembled this mecha, he could practically dominate the Bander Galaxy. Even Lieutenant Walker, a powerful Level 6 Gene Warrior, would have to retreat before this mecha!
However...
After reading for several hours, Su Ming gained a general understanding of mecha assembly.
He could not help but marvel inwardly at how astonishing the crystallization of countless people's wisdom throughout the universe was.
If one person studied the knowledge and blueprints of this mecha alone, they might not be able to figure it out even after several thousand years.
It was simply too complicated and cumbersome!
If assembling a single weapon was like the knowledge system of one discipline, then assembling a mecha involved knowledge from dozens of disciplines.
It was more than a hundred times more complicated!
Compared to an entire mecha, assembling a single weapon was as easy as children playing house.
And... Su Ming suddenly discovered with a bitter smile...
With his current Brain Domain Level, he still could not control this basic mecha.
To fully control this basic mecha, he would at least need to raise his Brain Domain Level to that of a Level 5 Gene Warrior before he had enough capacity to operate it.
But that was fine...
What Su Ming excelled at most was transforming mechanical equipment with a high threshold into equipment with a lower one.
As long as he simplified some of the mechanical components, the threshold for using this mecha would decrease to a range his current level could withstand.
Moreover, he would improve during the mecha's assembly. His level would certainly be higher by then, making the mecha even easier to control.
Su Ming did not hesitate. He still had more than 10,000 Merit Points left, so he spent them all in the Merit System to exchange for a large amount of mechanical equipment.
These were all mechanical components needed to assemble the mecha.
However, even after spending more than 10,000 Merit Points, he had still exchanged for less than one-tenth of the required mechanical components.
A true mecha required an extremely complicated array of mechanical components.
Moreover, every component was extraordinarily expensive. Even through the Merit System, a large number of Merit Points were required to exchange for a complete set of mecha components.
At present, Su Ming's Merit Points were far from sufficient. He could only exchange for some of the components first and assemble one part. Once he had enough Merit Points, he would slowly purchase and add the remaining components piece by piece.
Soon, the mechanical components Su Ming had exchanged for were transmitted into his storage space through the spatial transmission function.
Su Ming took the mechanical components out one by one and placed them in the dormitory.
Without another word, he immediately got to work, beginning to disassemble and re-engrave the mechanical components...
As Su Ming entered his assembly state, his order-taking mode also reopened.
There was no helping it. He had to earn Merit Points. Mecha were money-burning machines, and assembling one would probably require more than 100,000 Merit Points.
Su Ming could only reopen his business, modifying mechanical equipment for others in exchange for Merit Point compensation while using that compensation to purchase large quantities of mechanical components to support the mecha.
What comforted Su Ming, however, was that as his research into mecha deepened, his mechanical skills also began advancing by leaps and bounds.
Originally, modifying one piece of mechanical equipment took Su Ming forty minutes. Now, he had directly increased his speed to twenty minutes, a pace that was enough to make the vast majority of mechanics feel ashamed.
At the same time... assembling a mecha was also an extremely exhausting task.
Even Su Ming himself failed to notice that his Brain Domain Level was rapidly soaring as he studied and assembled the mecha...
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