With the Records of the Grand Historian in hand, Sarah immediately began reading it. This book, which recorded the history of an ancient country, was of great help to her.
It not only contributes to the accumulation of knowledge in archaeology, but also greatly promotes the accumulation of knowledge in the field of magic.
Why are powerful mages often erudite individuals? It's because magic itself requires a vast amount of seemingly useless knowledge to accumulate, which rapidly enhances one's intelligence attribute. This directly impacts the power of magic and the advancement of one's profession.
After finishing his work as a librarian, Ye Chen returned to the shop and continued working for two more days, finally arriving at the day he had agreed to meet with Fatty.
He handed the shop over to two Silver Moon Elves and then went with Ye Xi to the fat man's territory.
After some time, Fatty's territory had grown larger and larger. However, compared to the vibrant life in Ye Chen's territory, his territory was more technologically advanced, surrounded by various cyberpunk-style buildings, with chimneys spewing exhaust fumes everywhere.
However, these exhaust gases were not allowed to drift in the air. Various purification devices were placed near the chimneys to ensure that the air in Fatty's territory was not polluted.
The stale exhaust gas was trapped at the top of the chimney, like black fog balloons, seemingly under some kind of magic, preventing it from leaving.
Indeed, every chimney's exhaust vent was engraved with binding magic runes to prevent the unpurified exhaust fumes from spreading. In the world of magic, many things that Ye Chen could not have imagined before can always be done.
"You're here? Come over here! Let me tell you, besides the third-generation goblin armor, there are quite a few other good things here!" The fat man waved excitedly when he saw Ye Chen arrive.
"What good stuff? Better than the third-generation goblin armor? Don't tell me you've already built a mech, huh?" Ye Chen said with a smile, patted the other person on the shoulder, and then walked towards the training ground together.
This place was built after the dwarves appeared. As the dwarves' forging technology improved, more and more mechanical structures needed to be demonstrated. Several such training grounds have been built, each with a different purpose.
Today, Fatty took him to the largest training ground in the territory, where important military machinery such as goblin armor are usually used for exercises.
"The good stuff you're talking about, it can't be that, right? You actually managed to build the mecha?" As soon as Ye Chen arrived at the training ground, his eyes were drawn to the huge machine at the edge of the field.
With its modular mechanical body, humanoid form, and terrifying firepower, its design is very close to the mecha Ye Chen had in mind.
"Hehe! I was going to hide this for a while, but this thing is too big. Unless we don't bring it to this training ground, we can't hide it at all! Well, let's take a look at this thing first!" The fat man said with a regretful look, pulling Ye Chen directly towards that direction.
"You guessed right, this thing is the mecha we were talking about before, but it's only a design at the moment, it's still a semi-finished product, but it already has a certain combat capability."
"It has a control panel inside, which can be used to control this mecha just like other large machines, similar to the spaceships and starships on the market today. That's why I say it's only a semi-finished product. The artificial intelligence you mentioned earlier is still in its infancy, and there's no way to give it life. Right now, it's just a large-scale strategic weapon!"
"However, its offensive and defensive capabilities are much stronger than goblin armor. It has a large energy reserve and its attack power can easily reach the fifth tier. If the weapons it is equipped with are up to par, it can even reach the sixth or seventh tier of attack power."
"Unfortunately, the flaws are also obvious! The operability is too poor. Everything needs to be operated by the operator in the main control room. Not to mention the information transmission speed, the operator's reaction speed may not be able to keep up. Let alone the sixth level, if it really comes to an enemy, I'm afraid a fourth level martial artist can kill it, or even some extreme agile assassins."
As the fat man showed Ye Chen the mecha, he explained its advantages and disadvantages. He even took Ye Chen into the control room, where the dense wiring and control panel were enough to make one's scalp tingle.
"You're exaggerating. With so many control buttons, it's just a lump of metal. It's only really useful as a fixed turret, but that would make your costs very high, wouldn't it?" Ye Chen said, frowning.
It lacks practical combat capability, and its cost as a turret is too high. If we really want to fight in space, it would be better to build a starship instead of this. The cost-effectiveness is too low.
"That's the idea, but it's too difficult to achieve our previous vision. Let alone giving it life, we can't even do artificial intelligence right now!" the fat man said with a bitter face. Creating life is something that his goblin can't do; it would require the power of a god!
"Okay! So this thing is just a model for now!" Ye Chen shrugged regretfully. Actually, goblins are capable of creating life, but the fat man's goblin development time is still too short, and it involves the authority of the gods. For a weak life form like a goblin, it is not allowed; that would be blasphemy.
This is also why goblins were despised by the gods in the past.
"If we can't develop artificial intelligence, what about using thought-sensing?" Ye Chen suddenly asked. They had previously focused on artificial intelligence, but the appearance of Fengdu City gave him a different kind of inspiration.
"Thought-sensing access?" The fat man was taken aback, clearly not fully understanding the meaning behind the words.
"Hmm, thought-sensing access. Humans have magnetic fields. Thinking, speaking, acting... everything can cause changes in one's own magnetic field. If we can design a device to capture this magnetic field, then wouldn't it be possible to directly control this mech through the magnetic field?"
"At that time, the body of this mecha will be an extension of the pilot's body, and the mecha's gaze will be the pilot's gaze; whatever the pilot thinks, the mecha will do accordingly. Wouldn't that achieve the same effect as when we wanted to create artificial intelligence and even life?"
Ye Chen said excitedly, but the fat man looked at him blankly, clearly not understanding what the other party was saying at all.
"Soul, possession, switching to a different mecha body, understand?"
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