Chapter 150: A New Era of Mecha

"Teacher, teacher, look at this." Yan Hao grabbed the two axles and ran to Mr. Pang like a fly, showing him the place where the two axles were connected.

"What is this?" Pang Lao squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while. "Why did you weld these two axles together? No... welding is not done with this interface. How did you do it?"

"Teacher, I didn't do anything." Yan Hao said.

"You didn't do anything, so where did the black stuff in the middle come from?"

"I don't know either. It was fine at noon. I just put it aside. When I looked at it again in the evening, they were connected together. As for the black thing, I suspect it is the Phantom Stone." Yan Hao said.

"Phantom Stone?" Old Pang took a pair of reading glasses from the workbench, put them on, and stared at the black substance for a long while. After a while, he said, "Xiao Hao, check the performance of these two axles."

"Yes." Yan Hao also had the same idea, and immediately moved two axles to test them.

Half an hour later, the test data appeared, and the master and apprentice stood in front of the instrument's display screen for a long time without moving.

"Am I seeing things?" asked Mr. Pang in a daze.

"Teacher, if the values ​​you see are also abnormal, I think you are not mistaken." Yan Hao said.

Mr. Pang glanced at his apprentice, still a little unconvinced: "Could it be that we have been working for too long and our eyes are blurry?"

"Then... wash your face and take another look?" Yan Hao himself was a little unsure.

"Okay." The master and the apprentice turned around and went to the bathroom together. After washing their faces with cold water, they returned to the instrument again, and then...

“Fuck!” Mr. Pang, a highly respected man who had been cursed for 30 years, swore.

Yan Hao opened his mouth, wanting to shout something to express his excitement, but he suddenly heard Mr. Pang swearing, and was so scared that he immediately forgot the words.

"The performance of traditional axles has been improved by 2%, and this is all-round." Mr. Pang picked up the two connected axles on the test bench and pointed at the black connection.

From the values ​​just tested, we know that this black coating is not made of Phantom Stone, but a new alloy made by fusing Golden Crystal Stone and Phantom Stone. This new alloy can improve the performance of traditional axles in all aspects, and this improvement is only the initial stage, although it is only 2%, but that little alloy only fuses the outermost part of the parts. What if it can be fully fused? What if the entire mecha parts are made of this alloy?

The more Mr. Pang thought about it, the more excited he became: "Xiao Hao, think carefully about how you made them change like this."

"I really don't know." Yan Hao was also confused.

"Think carefully, what were you doing before you put down these two axles? Don't miss even the smallest detail." Mr. Pang reminded.

Yan Hao nodded, frowning as he recalled: "I was looking for the difference between the two axles, comparing the production steps of the two axles step by step, and then using my mental power to check the internal structure of the axles. I didn't do anything else."

"I have done all these, so why didn't I produce this kind of alloy? No, there must be other reasons." said Mr. Pang.

Yan Hao recalled it again and still shook his head.

"Then we have to start over again." The two returned to the workshop, and Elder Pang found a brand new part made of gold crystal stone for Yan Hao, "Xiao Hao, just follow the previous steps again."

"Yes." Yan Hao imitated what he had done before, holding the parts made of the phantom stone in one hand and the parts made of the golden crystal stone in the other, and began to compare them step by step. Pang Lao moved a chair and sat next to him, watching the whole process intently. The whole inspection process lasted for twenty minutes. Yan Hao withdrew his mental power, looked at Pang Lao, and put the two parts together next to each other.

The two of them stared at the parts that were leaning against each other for a full half hour. The two parts had been coexisting peacefully and there was no sign of them merging with each other.

"Another one." Old Pang handed over another pair of parts.

For things where you can't find a pattern, the only thing you can do is repeat the experiment.

Yan Hao conducted six experiments in a row, and finally, his hard work paid off and they once again waited for the metal fusion.

"I know, teacher. I know what caused the metal fusion." There were six consecutive experiments, and there was only one difference between the sixth and the previous five. "During the sixth test, my mental power was synchronized."

"Synchronously?" Mr. Pang was stunned for a moment, "You mean, you used your mental power to check the two parts at the same time."

"Well, I remembered that I had used up a lot of mental energy in the morning. I thought that the sixth-level axle was not a particularly advanced part, so I was lazy and tested two at the same time." Yan Hao explained.

Yan Hao has strong mental power, but he has not been in contact with mechas for a long time. In order to help Yan Hao develop good habits and enable him to thoroughly understand the structure of each part of the mecha, Mr. Pang once set a rule for him: when using mental power to detect the internal structure of a part, you can only focus on one at a time.

It was not just Yan Hao who did this. Every mecha maker would devote all his mental energy when faced with new materials or difficult mecha parts. The same was true for Pang Lao. Because the Phantom Stone was a brand new ore, he tested it separately every time for the sake of caution. Yan Hao had made the same mistake just now. The more he wanted to detect the difference, the more carefully he checked. After testing it six times in a row, he was a little confused, but he found the feeling he had before.

"Tell me more about it." If we were simply testing two parts at the same time, it would be impossible for the parts to suddenly fuse with each other.

"I also synchronized the mental fluctuations in the two parts." Yan Hao explained, "I am the maker of both parts. The one made by Jingjinshi was made by me last semester. At that time, my mental power was not yet S-level, so when I was doing the internal inspection, I sensed my mental power and subconsciously synchronized the mental fluctuations inside. So I guess this kind of metal fusion may be the mutation of the Phantom Stone when the mental fluctuations of the two metals are consistent."

"The change of the Phantom Stone?"

"We'll know after we do another experiment." Yan Hao stood up and took out two pieces he had made from the pile of parts at the back, then performed mental synchronization according to the method he had just mentioned, but the two mecha parts did not move and still maintained their independent shapes.

"Two identical pieces of gold crystal stones will not fuse if the mental power is synchronized, but if one of them is replaced with a phantom stone." Yan Hao said, replacing a part in his hand, and took a part made of a phantom stone, and then synchronized the mind again. After a moment, the two completely different metals merged together visibly.

There was a glimmer in Pang Lao's eyes. He took a piece of black stone and handed it over: "Try it."

Yan Hao immediately understood what Pang Lao meant. He took the parts made of the black fierce stone and started mental synchronization again. Soon, the familiar black alloy appeared again.

"Try again." Old Pang brought over a dozen parts made of different materials and piled them all in front of Yan Hao.

Yan Hao knew that whether these dozen or so parts could be fused with the Phantom Stone would directly determine their future research direction.

From dusk to dawn, the master and apprentice squatted in front of a workbench and worked all night without even a sip of water. After Yan Hao's mental power was used continuously for a night, his sea of ​​consciousness began to ache, but his face was indeed full of excitement and joy that he could not suppress. In front of him, there were more than a dozen parts made of various materials, and each part had a light black coating on it.

Although only a dozen materials were tested, they were all different in level and properties. It was basically confirmed that when the Phantom Stone synchronized with other ores, it would have a swallowing ability. It would swallow the ores that were synchronized with its spiritual fluctuations to produce a new alloy. The performance of this alloy would not only not change the original performance of the ore it swallowed, but would also greatly improve the performance of this ore.

This characteristic is extremely similar to the blood of the phantom beast, which can increase the level. The blood of the phantom beast increases the human's mental power, while the phantom stone increases the mecha.

Yan Hao wanted to find a mech right now to do a comprehensive upgrade, to see how much the performance of an ordinary mech could be improved after being fully upgraded with the Phantom Stone. But he was already powerless at this time, and his almost exhausted sea of ​​consciousness kept urging him to rest. Yan Hao went back to the dormitory and slept for two days before his mental strength recovered. After waking up and taking a shower, he immediately ran to the laboratory again.

After another month of hard work, Yan Hao and Pang Lao each completed a mecha arm made of a new alloy. After a month of experimentation, they summarized the conditions for the alloy to appear.

First, the spiritual power inside the parts that are fused with the Phantom Stone must be consistent with the spiritual power at the time of fusion. In simple terms, only the maker of the mecha parts can complete the fusion.

Second, a mental power of A+ or above is required to stimulate the devouring ability of the Phantom Stone. Otherwise, even if the mental power is synchronized, no new alloy will be formed by fusion.

Third, the higher the mental power, the better the performance of the new alloy.

Old Pang was a level 10 mecha maker, and no one could match him in mecha manufacturing. Yan Hao, as his disciple, was only a level 6 mecha maker, and was far inferior to Old Pang in mecha manufacturing. However, the performance of the new alloy mecha arm made by Yan Hao was higher than that made by Old Pang in all aspects.

"Spiritual power determines performance. In the future, the level of mecha builders will be further separated by mental power." Old Pang sighed and looked at Yan Hao with relief. "In the new mecha era, my A+ mental power is no longer top-notch."

"teacher……"

Yan Hao tried to comfort Old Pang, but he just waved his hand gently and said with a smile, "This is a good thing. Each generation should be stronger than the previous one. If Old Man Zhong and I are always the two old guys standing at the top of mecha manufacturing, then what future do the Federation's mechas have?"

"Xiaohao, the new mecha era will be led by you."

At this time, a ray of sunlight shone in from the window. In the sunlight, the old man patted the boy's shoulder heavily, his tone full of entrustment and expectation. The boy's eyes were full of light, and he nodded solemnly.