Chapter 4

The mailbox was filled with smart flyers, all of which contained information about the sale of the mecha field. In front of the gate of the empty base was a message about renting a building. The entrance of KID was deserted and quiet, as if the team had gone bankrupt. If it weren't for the Star Network recruitment notice with the base address attached, Ying Chenlin would have suspected that he had come to the wrong place.

When someone came to apply for the job, the first thing that came to Ji Qingfeng's mind was that the money spent on technical advertising was not wasted.

His expression changed, and he pushed the door open in a serious tone, "This is the KID base. Are you here to apply? Come in first."

Ying Chenlin: “…”

The other person was dressed simply, with a hat covering half of his face, so it was difficult to see clearly.

Ji Qingfeng made way swiftly and pushed the short Lin Yao aside, his scrutinizing eyes occasionally sweeping over Ying Chenlin.

This looks too young, doesn't it?

Maintenance technicians frequently go in and out of the mecha's interior and exterior, and often have to carry heavy loads and use maintenance tools. Generally speaking, they are in good physical condition.

The man in front of me looked a little thin, maybe because he was wearing long sleeves, or maybe it was because his fair skin looked a little sickly. It was hard to believe that such a person was a maintenance worker.

"Ying Chenlin?" Ji Qingfeng was stunned when he saw the resume the other party sent over. He was 18 years old, B-level physique, A-level mental strength. "Junior maintenance technician?"

Ying Chenlin: “Yeah.”

There is no other information attached to the resume, only Ying Chenlin's simple personal information and the maintenance technician qualification certificate attached to the resume. There is no other experience. It is a very clean resume.

Ji Qingfeng looked down and saw that the qualification certificate was issued exactly half a month ago.

Very good, just got the certificate and started working, the newest among the newcomers.

I didn't meet any other people in the base along the way, only a few scattered intelligent robots were wandering around. This is on the underground floor of the original KID building.

Before coming, he had a brief understanding of KID's situation and knew that the situation here was not very good, but he did not expect it to be this bad.

Selling the mecha field for training, renting the spacious training base, and squeezing into the small underground space. Ying Chenlin's gaze fell on the distance. The seemingly narrow underground corridor had a deep corridor and stairs going down layer by layer. It looked very spacious.

Negative second floor? There seemed to be a faint glow at the end of the stairs, which expanded outwards little by little, becoming more and more eye-catching.

After reading the resume, Ji Qingfeng casually said, "Let's go to the conference room and take a written test first."

Beep—Suddenly, a shrill alarm sounded from the end of the stairs.

The sound of breaking air continued to echo in the empty corridor! ┆

Ji Qingfeng stopped suddenly.

Ying Chenlin raised his head and glanced at the surveillance cameras high up in the corridor and the alarm lights on the ceiling. The alarm lights in the corridor didn't sound, so it wasn't a malfunction within the base.

"What happened!?" Lin Yao quickly followed from behind. The two of them turned their attention to the end of the corridor and immediately determined the source of the alarm.

Ji Qingfeng moved quickly, jumped down the stairs from a high place in a few steps, and said urgently: "The alarm is going off downstairs!"

Ying Chenlin stopped and looked at the two mecha masters who disappeared in the blink of an eye, and his eyes moved slightly upwards.

There was a virtual light screen hanging beside the dark stairs leading to the bottom. As the alarm sounded, it glowed blue. He walked a few steps closer and saw the words displayed on the virtual light screen. He knew the destination at the end of the stairs.

——Temporary maintenance room.

KID base, underground temporary maintenance room, second floor below ground.

In the huge space on the second underground floor, there are many mechas placed.

Ji Qingfeng rushed to the end of the stairs and saw the mechas standing in the transparent glass window. One of the mechas had a light on, and the cockpit on its chest was emitting a conspicuous red light.

Seeing this, Ji Qingfeng cursed, quickly opened the maintenance room's access rights, and rushed in.

Lin Yao sent a communication request to Shen Xingtang as he walked, but the other party did not reply. He stopped in the maintenance room and asked, "What's going on?!"

Only a virtual screen was lit on the cold programming desk, and a striking error warning was displayed on the bright blue virtual light board.

Ji Qingfeng walked to the programming desk. The function keys were so complicated that they gave him a headache. He cursed and asked, "Did Sister Tang say anything before she left? Why are there still mechas running here?"

"The call was not answered. They said this morning that they went to the contaminated area. They may not be able to answer the call over there." Lin Yao made several calls but the other party did not respond.

He looked closely and said, "Ji Qingfeng, the one who called the police seems to be your mecha."

Ji Qingfeng looked up in shock, "!!!"

Lin Yao had never encountered such a situation before, so he said in a panic: "Just watch it, I'll go cut off the power."

Ji Qingfeng's face turned pale and he quickly grabbed the person: "Damn it, that's my wife! Can you just cut off the power supply? What if there is a problem inside."

Lin Yao paused: "What should I do? Let your wife keep screaming?"

Ji Qingfeng: "...Will it be scrapped if I call it?"

Lin Yao looked at the error boxes that popped up again, and was not sure: "Yes, right?"

Ji Qingfeng turned around resignedly and looked at the mess of buttons on the virtual screen of the auxiliary program desk. Under a bunch of pop-up error reports, there was a [Pause] program option.

This mecha was severely damaged in the last game of last season. Ever since the team's maintenance technician had an accident, this mecha has been in the care of Shen Xingtang. Shen Xingtang should have dealt with the problem of the mecha before going out, but now the mecha has sounded an alarm.

"There's nothing we can do. Now we can only wait for Sister Tang to come back..."

He was about to press it when a calm male voice suddenly came from behind him.

"I advise you not to press it."

Ji Qingfeng and Lin Yao turned around immediately and saw Ying Chenlin standing at the door behind them with a suitcase.

Notice their gaze, and be calm.

He raised his hand and pointed at the door, "The door on the road is not closed, sorry to bother you."

When they saw Ying Chenlin, the two panicked people finally realized that they had not closed the door and there was a job applicant behind it. Lin Yao remembered that the man in front of him was a maintenance technician. Just as he was about to speak, he heard the man continue to say -

"This is the mecha's self-check procedure. Generally, maintenance technicians will use a self-check procedure after repairing a mecha. This mecha should have been set up with a timed self-check procedure by the previous maintenance technician. The procedure is automatically turned on by default and uses the mecha's internal energy. Cutting off the energy will have no effect."

Ying Chenlin took a few steps closer, but still kept his distance and did not go deep into the maintenance room: "Generally, there will be no errors in the self-check program. If there is an error, forcing it to pause without eliminating the root cause is likely to cause errors in the mecha program coding."

Ji Qingfeng asked nervously: "What will happen?"

"The internal data of the mecha is lost." Ying Chenlin said simply: "If your maintenance technicians don't have a backup or set it up, this problem is fatal."

Ji Qingfeng gritted his teeth and said, "That bastard may not have saved the data."

The KID mecha was previously under the care of the team doctor who violated the rules, and was only transferred to Shen Xingtang's care during this period.

Ying Chenlin: "This can only be solved by the machine, and a maintenance technician must come. It's best to solve it as soon as possible, otherwise the self-check program will continue to run, and problems will appear even if there are no problems."

Ji Qingfeng's face became nervous when he heard this, "What's going to go wrong?"

Ying Chenlin said simply: "Data corruption can lead to paralysis of the entire system."

Ji Qingfeng: "…Is there any difference?"

Pressing pause will cause damage, and not pressing pause will cause the computer to become paralyzed! ?

"The self-checking procedure went wrong, which is a minor problem." Ying Chenlin saw that the two looked different, and hesitantly asked, "Are there any other maintenance technicians in the base?"

Where are the other maintenance technicians?... KID has a small staff to begin with. Some people took leave during the off-season, some resigned, and some people have left during this period.

Some things are hard to say. Right now in the KID team, apart from the intelligent maintenance robot, there are no other maintenance technicians.

Ying Chenlin scanned the error message on the virtual screen and noticed the expressions of the two people. In addition to the mecha that was on alarm, there were other mechas placed in this maintenance room. On the left near the programming table was a disassembled mecha. Ying Chenlin thought of the rumors on the Internet and knew that the mecha data of the KID team had been leaked and the seller had not yet been identified.

The base was empty, and apart from the robots, there were hardly any living people.

"Our boss is not here, and there is no maintenance technician at the base at the moment." Ji Qingfeng had no idea where to start, and was completely afraid to touch the buttons on the programming desk. "You are a maintenance technician, do you have any solution to this situation?"

Ying Chenlin pondered for a moment, pushed the suitcase to the railing near the door, then he stepped on the railing and jumped directly from the high platform into the maintenance room where parts were scattered all over the floor.

Lin Yao: “Hey wait a minute.”

Before Ji Qingfeng could open his mouth, he heard a voice from below: "Borrow the mechanical knife."

"What do you want to borrow a knife for?" Ji Qingfeng stepped on the railing and was about to go down: "I'm going, don't mess around!"

"Calm down! They have evidence." Lin Yao grabbed the man and shouted to Ying Chenlin below: "Brother, can you solve this?"

"I can make it stop the alarm from going off." Ying Chenlin looked up at Ji Qingfeng, "Don't worry, I won't tear your wife apart."

Lin Yao saw Ying Chenlin picking up a half-arm-long tool from the ground, and then jumped onto the knee of the mecha in a few steps. He stood there to identify it for a while before crawling along the large mechanical arm hanging from the mecha to the cockpit. Ji Qingfeng walked over and opened the cockpit door for him. Ying Chenlin slid into the cockpit with the mechanical knife without much hesitation.

Ji Qingfeng: "He even has a knife."

Lin Yao began to get nervous. "It's OK, right? At least they have a certificate."

Ji Qingfeng was even more nervous than him, "Does a novice certificate count? If he twists his hand, my wife will lose weight!"

Lin Yao was about to comfort him when he suddenly remembered Ying Chenlin's mechanical prosthesis. He was instantly unable to speak any words of comfort. He whispered, "We didn't give him the key to the mecha, so he can't touch the core data... Should he be okay?"

Ji Qingfeng didn't care about all this. He was about to jump down to stop it when his peripheral vision suddenly caught a glimpse of the programming desk.

The virtual screen that had been popping up error boxes stopped, and the error box at the top flashed for a moment and then disappeared.

The error disappeared...?

Ji Qingfeng immediately looked at Ying Chenlin and saw Ying Chenlin coming out of the cockpit and then climbing onto the right arm of the mecha.

Lin Yao looked at Ying Chenlin and blinked: "It seems that he really knows how to repair it."

The mecha was severely damaged last season, with the most serious damage being to the right arm, which was a fracture. After Ying Chenlin left, they hadn't told him the details of the mecha, nor had they given him any information.

The details of the mecha's exterior could not be seen clearly in the dim room, but the man came out of the cockpit and went straight to the damage point with a very clear purpose.

This guy seems to really know how to repair it, and it doesn't look bad.

Ying Chenlin sat at the junction of the mecha's right arm and torso, fixing his body with his feet. He did not need any other auxiliary tools and moved with the help of his feet which moved freely... He looked down at his feet, then quickly looked away, staring at the mecha's right arm that had been mostly connected, from which traces of maintenance were clearly visible.

If the mecha's self-check program is set, it will indeed be activated at a certain point in time after maintenance.

It is obvious that the person who set up the self-check program and repaired the mecha was not the same person. The right arm was only half repaired. If Shen Xingtang was in charge of the repair, she would not make such a mistake.

It would be strange if the mecha didn't alarm when it started self-checking during maintenance.

Ying Chenlin carefully looked at the docking of his right arm, glanced at the tools on the ground, and then jumped off the mecha.

Ji Qingfeng asked Lin Yao to stay at the programming table. He walked to Ying Chenlin and saw him rummaging through the parts table next to him.

"Can this be solved?" Ji Qingfeng asked.

Ying Chenlin tilted his head to look at him, picked up the tools on the parts table, and said as he walked, "It can be solved."

Ji Qingfeng was not sure and wanted to ask a few more questions, but Ying Chenlin had already climbed onto the mecha and returned to the position of his right arm.

After a while, Ying Chenlin's questioning voice came from above.

Ji Qingfeng looked up at him. Ying Chenlin was sitting steadily on the mecha, looking down at him condescendingly.

The other party asked: "Is the operator of this mecha left-handed?"

Ji Qingfeng was stunned: "Yes."

Ying Chenlin's eyes stayed on the severed part of his right arm: "Okay, I understand."

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