"How... how was this done?" Doctor Wei asked incredulously.
"Don't ask about the method..." Walter answered him. "It isn't something we can understand."
His mouth opened as he instinctively wanted to argue.
There was nothing in this world that could not be understood. Scientific thinking could help humanity understand everything.
But when he saw the mechanical arm hanging down from the ventilation duct, he swallowed his words. Rationally speaking, it could never have anything to do with the air-conditioning system—no matter how far technology advanced in a hundred years, no central air-conditioning vent would ever be equipped with something like that.
"Miss Lin, does this mean that as long as we produce the 'failed products' Doctor Wei mentioned, we can obtain fully functional artificial eyes?" Walter asked.
"It can be understood that way."
His reaction really is fast, Lin Qing thought. In a sense, repair and manufacturing had always been two sides of the same ability. Since N959 could repair damaged items, it could naturally restore incomplete ones as well—to it, these were all defective products that had lost their function. As long as there was a sample to reference, repairing them required little effort.
The result was just as Lin Qing had expected.
The artificial eye Wei Hefan had brought did not directly become the military model she used; only its interface had been reshaped. In the eyes of an Artifact, its core function had not been damaged and thus did not need repairing. In other words, even if N959 were given unlimited resources, it would not modify a battery into an artificial eye.
Even if it truly possessed that capability.
At the same time, the Artifact's repair process was by no means a complete nanometer-level replication of the reference sample. It had its own distinctive repair philosophy, something