Ancient Capital University, School of Mechanical Engineering.

Ancient Capital University has an outstanding archaeology major, but the level of the Mechanical Engineering Department is not that good, even worse than the Animal Husbandry Department...

But, that was in the past!

"Shi Yu..."

"Are you really going to let me help you awaken the machine?"

"Are you really going to contract a mechanical life?"

Dean Hao of the Mechanical Engineering Department rubbed his hands, his face full of excitement.

"I have a feeling that you will be the pride of the Mechanical Engineering Department of Ancient Capital University in the future!"

It is reasonable that a student is the common pride of the Archaeology Department, the Combat Department, the Animal Husbandry Department, and the Mechanical Engineering Department.

"No way..."

"I'm just a mechanical rookie, a pure newbie..."

Shi Yu said modestly beside him.

Behind them, there was a sighing cat.

At this time, the gem cat has been thinking about what this mechanical pet will be cultivated by Shi Yu into in the future...

You have to think in an unscientific direction...

It looked at the sky. Will it become a space battleship? Will a star cannon in the universe destroy a totem country below?

Or will it become a time machine that travels through time and space.

"Haha, in that case."

"Leave it to me, I guarantee you'll be satisfied." Dean Hao patted his chest and said.

The most correct thing he has done in his life is to participate in the research on the evolution of the iron-eating beast and build an evolutionary armor for Eleven.

Now, it helps Shi Yu with the initial awakening of the mechanical pet. What is this! In the future, when Shi Yu is very successful, his name will definitely be mentioned in a prominent way.

As for whether Shi Yu can become successful, it goes without saying. Dean Hao has never seen such a monstrous beastmaster as Shi Yu!

Although the national competition was not held on site, it did not prevent him from twitching all over while watching it on TV.

Thinking of the soul of his granddaughter who was only ten years old at the time, he asked: "Grandpa, is this the person you asked me to learn from, Brother Gao Xuan?"

"He is so miserable... I don't want to be a mechanic anymore, I want to be an archaeologist!"

Dean Hao was speechless for a while.

Shi Yu is very good. He successfully made his granddaughter, a mechanic, lose her dream of becoming a mechanic and become an archaeologist.

...

Dean Hao took Shi Yu and others to his own research institute.

There were a bunch of messy mechanical equipment in the research institute, and Shi Yu couldn't understand them anyway.

Beside it, the Pokémon cat was doing fine.

It had tried to transform its clone into a mechanical cat in the past!

Although it failed and the clone was blown to death, it had rich experience in mechanical transformation, which was not comparable to a rookie like Shiyu.

As for why it hadn't left after Shiyu was sent here, it was mainly to see what initial instructions Shiyu would set for the mechanical pet.

This was related to the future personality and behavior of the mechanical pet, and it was very curious.

"It's here."

Shiyu and the others came to an independent room. In this room, there was a huge laboratory table with three large lamps on it.

To Shiyu, it felt like an operating room instead of a laboratory...

"What should we do next..." Shiyu asked.

"Put the smart chip on the table, and then expose it to the awakening ray for a while."

"Yeah, it's just as simple as the data." Shi Yu.

It feels like there is no difference between it and the awakening mirror.

"Haha." Dean Hao smiled and said, "This is not easy."

"You feel it is easy because the awakening device has been built."

"If you build an awakening device of this level from scratch, you will have to invest at least hundreds of millions."

"In addition, the release of awakening rays will also consume a lot of rare energy."

"The consumption of awakening advanced intelligent chips can paralyze a town."

"Well, don't the Change Stone and the adaptability device need to be assembled in advance?"

"No, to be precise, you can't do that." "

If there is a beastmaster with awakening talent, he can directly assemble the three together... and then use the awakening talent on it. At that time, the mechanical life of the monarch race can be born directly."

"But the awakening rays of the awakening device can only awaken the intelligent chip. If you assemble them together and use the awakening rays, the result can only be failure."

"The general process is to awaken the intelligent chip first, and then connect other mechanical materials through the adaptability device. Finally, activate the intelligent chip to complete the combined evolution. If successful, it means the creation is successful."

"This process is relatively cumbersome and troublesome, and the failure rate is extremely high. Once it fails, the mechanical material will have a chance to be scrapped. It is not safe and convenient to not have the awakening talent, but you don't have to worry. The reward you get in the national competition is a complete set of top-grade mechanical materials with perfect compatibility, so there is no risk of awakening failure."

Shi Yu nodded.

Awakening talent is equivalent to the "evolutionary talent" in the mechanical system.

It can increase the success rate of the combined evolution of mechanical life and reduce the risk of failure.

Possessing awakening talent can make mechanics upgrade mechanical life with half the effort.

"Of course, there is another mechanical system with the highest risk of failure." Dean Hao laughed.

"Biological transformation." Shi Yu said.

"Yes, this kind of mechanical system is more dangerous than the mechanical system that simply uses smart chips, so except for Xingdu University, other universities do not have mechanical departments for biological transformation."

Biological modification is very dangerous. As for why it is not banned...

the reason is also very simple.

Because the upper limit of biological mechanical modification is also extremely strong.

The Kingdom of Kamikaze, also known as the Kingdom of the God Eagle, is because they successfully transformed the local totem Wind God Eagle into a demigod-level mechanical God Eagle.

In addition, there are rumors that the current legendary beastmaster of the Seven Islands is a "man-made person" involved in biological mechanical modification, so even without the power of pets, his own combat power can be called a Valkyrie.

After the Dragon Palace City was invaded by the poisonous dragon totem, without definite evidence, the reason why they did not dare to directly find fault and chose to investigate the evidence first was because the other party had a Valkyrie sitting in.

"The kind of artificial human in Dragon Ball?" Shi Yu muttered in his heart. This was all gossip from the Dragon King of the Dragon Palace. There was no record of this in Donghuang.

Or rather, it was not easy for ordinary beastmasters to know.

"Okay, come on."

Dean Hao spoke as Shi Yu took out the advanced intelligent chip from the relic space and put it in the groove of the laboratory table. After a

while.

Under the operation of Dean Hao, three lights lit up, emitting red, white and blue rays.

The three-body rays were concentrated at one point, just covering the entire advanced intelligent chip.

Soon, the transparent glass-like intelligent chip was dyed with three colors, and the three colors began to flow and merge in the mirror like liquid.

About a minute later, the color on the advanced intelligent chip began to fade and returned to the appearance of a transparent lens.

At the same time, the light from the three lamps slowly disappeared.

The jewel cat was watching eagerly.

"Okay!" Dean Hao laughed and said, "Next, we need to assemble it and the Variable Stone with the adaptability device."

Shi Yu nodded and took out the Rubik's Cube-shaped Variable Stone.

The Variable Stone is not big, but it is composed of 27 small cubes, just like a Rubik's Cube, and the middle can be turned like a Rubik's Cube.

Depending on the attributes, its color is different. For example, the Wind-type Variable Stone is white with a faint blue halo.

The adaptability device is very similar to the advanced intelligent chip. If the advanced intelligent chip is like a hard transparent lens, then the adaptability device is a pile of transparent stickers.

Although it looks simple, Shi Yu and his team used super vision to carefully observe these mechanical materials and found that both the smart chip and the adaptability device have countless dense codes on them, which are very complicated.

"The Variety Stone is easy to awaken, easy to assemble, and easy to transform. You only need to stick the adaptability device on both sides of the smart chip, then insert it into the Variety Stone, and then stick the adaptability device on the 54 small surfaces of the 6 external surfaces of the Variety Stone, and you can complete the assembly."

"Okay." Shi Yu immediately operated according to Dean Hao's instructions. It was indeed simpler than he imagined. It is worthy of being the most friendly mechanical material for novice mechanics.

After a while, Shi Yu completely completed the operation.

At the same time.

I don’t know whether it is the Variety Stone that is glowing, the adaptability device that is glowing, or the three that are reacting.

The cyan light instantly enveloped the entire Hundred-Change Stone, which was very dazzling.

Seeing this, Dean Hao touched his beard and said, "This is it, it's done."

"Next, as long as you touch it with your body and enter a meditative state for more than one minute, you can establish a spiritual connection with it and set the initial instructions."

"After this is completed, it will be completely activated, and it will complete the final evolution and become a real life form."

"In addition, because it is an advanced intelligent chip, it has a certain understanding of the world view as soon as it wakes up, and it has a certain amount of basic knowledge stored inside, just like a professional encyclopedia. It can be regarded as a genius student with a very good foundation. No matter what you want to teach it in the future, it can accept it very quickly."

"This also includes some basic mechanical knowledge. Even if you know nothing about the field of mechanics, it can take good care of itself at the beginning, and you don't have to worry about it getting sick."

"Of course, it knows a little bit about everything, but at present it only knows a little bit about everything. For example, its knowledge in archaeology and animal husbandry is definitely not as rich as the knowledge recorded in your archaeological atlas and animal husbandry atlas. So if you want to upgrade its data chip later, you can also come to me. This will be faster than learning it acquired." "

However, although it has a certain cognitive foundation in its worldview, it is essentially still a newborn. Its acquired personality is related to the initial instructions you designed. This process can be regarded as 'early education guidance'."

Dean Hao explained to Shi Yu in detail.

After a while, Dean Hao finished speaking.

Shi Yu picked up the Variable Stone and thanked him, "Thank you very much, Dean Hao. I will go back and do the final awakening now."

"Hmm?" Dean Hao was stunned and nodded.

"Meow?"

The gem cat was also stunned, looked at Shi Yu, widened his eyes, and said, "What initial instructions are you going to set?"

"Set it and let it wake up before going back."

Shi Yu refused ugly. How could you, a cat, know such a private matter.

The gem cat was angry and guaranteed that Shi Yu must have no good intentions.

...

After returning to the dormitory of the Ancient Capital University, Shi Yu immediately went into the Mechanical Research Institute in the ruins space and got rid of the very curious gem cat.

In his own research institute, Shi Yu sat on a stool and took out the Variable Stone.

"Ah! Wu! Eey! Meow! Beep!"

After Shi Yu came back, the eleven gathered outside the room, muttering and talking.

They all knew that Shi Yu was making a baby inside.

"What do you think?"

After sitting and thinking for a while, Shi Yu opened the door and looked at the pets.

The reason why he came back was that he wanted to hear the opinions of each pet.

Shi Yu positioned the sixth pet as an all-around machine.

It is good at both research and combat.

It would be best if he could research himself into a combat mecha that can accommodate multiple pets.

By then, he will sit in the cockpit, use the red pupil as a weapon, and evolve into a sea elf that can connect to the sea contract and use the element with infinite energy value as energy. Eleven, Bugs, and Shenbao will each perform their duties, which is not invincible.

Therefore, when setting the initial instructions, incorporate some of Eleven's ideas, and perhaps everyone can cooperate better in the future.

In addition, in daily life, Shi Yu also feels that he is just missing a housekeeper or assistant-type pet, so he can try to do something in this direction.

Now... it's just like creating a character in a game.

However, the game is about creating appearance, while they create personality, behavior, and dreams. "Hmm.

"

Outside the door, seeing Shi Yu suddenly poking his head out, Eleven was the first to give suggestions.

He hoped that the character of the little machine would have elements of hard work, self-discipline, and diligence.

"Okay." Shi Yu nodded. Of course there was no problem with this.

As for the mechanical department, as long as you don't die from working hard, you just have to work to death.

"Well!! (Be willing to work hard and never complain!!)"

Chong Chong also gave suggestions, which were similar to Eleven's.

However, Shi Yu's mouth twitched, and he always felt that something was wrong.

Are you afraid that when you and the little machine are studying mechanical phantom beasts together, the other party will slack off and exploit you?

"Eh!! (Knowledge changes destiny!)" Shen Baobao pushed his glasses.

It heard that the new little robot would be a top student?

Ha, it looks like there will be one more assistant.

The top student looked up at the stars.

He already imagined himself wearing a combat mecha and shooting down one teddy bear with one shot.

Shi Yu nodded. This must be there.

A robot that can't learn and research on its own is not a good robot.

"Mee!! (Girl!)" Chi Tong suggested strongly.

"Hmm...?" Shi Yu raised his eyebrows. Can this be set as well?

It seems possible?

But why do you have to be a girl?

Is this to reconcile the yin and yang in the team? This is

of course no problem. Even if Chi Tong didn't say it, he was going to do this.

The female system voice must sound more pleasing to the ear than the male system voice.

"Hey." Su Su's idea is the simplest and most plain.

I hope the little machine likes pollution-free energy.

After all, its hometown, the Banzan Islands, was polluted by the power of the forbidden machinery of the Seven Islands.

"I will." Shi Yu nodded.

The Changing Stone (wind) uses wind power as its main energy source. When it merges with Su Su in the future, it can also use the energy of the sea as power with the "Canghai Contract" of the Canghai Elves. Wind power and water power are both pollution-free energy.

Shi Yu will naturally take this into consideration. Otherwise, it will be bad if Su Su and the little machine quarrel in the team.

"Okay, okay, you all go to training."

After listening to the pets' ideas, Shi Yu drove them away and returned to the research institute.

Begin to build a spiritual connection with the mechanical pets and set initial instructions.

In the bright room, Shi Yu sat expectantly, playing with the Rubik's Cube in his hand, closing his eyes and entering a meditative state.

One minute later...

Shi Yu seemed to have entered the virtual online game space of that VR game, his spirit was connected to the Changing Stone Machine, and the surrounding scenery was like a cosmic tunnel, with mechanical cubes swirling around him.

[First... Gender, female. ]

[Position: housekeeper, assistant, secretary. ]

[As for personality, hardworking, diligent, hardworking, likes to learn, has rock-like perseverance, and has a very strong sense of responsibility for work and tasks...] Shi Yu set it for several minutes.

[Regarding Eleven, Chong Chong, Shen Baobao, Chi Tong, Su Su as companions... He is extremely infatuated with and worships the world's most handsome and outstanding "Creator Shi Yu", and regards him as an idol...]

​​Shi Yu coughed dryly.

[The dream is, or should I say the main plot is, to become the most powerful all-around machine and assist the beast tamer Shi Yu and his companions to become stronger.]

Shi Yu kept pinching the machine in the spiritual space, and the initial settings of the small machine were being improved little by little.

Inside the house, Shi Yu was holding the Variety Stone, muttering to himself.

Outside the house, Eleven and the others were looking at each other, wondering why they hadn't come out yet.

Obviously, they didn't go to training and were waiting for the results.

After a long time...

[Completed!]

After pinching slowly for a long time, Shi Yu finally exited the mental connection state.

At this moment, the advanced intelligent chip was completely activated.

The nine-square grid on one of the six sides of the Variety Stone was directly transformed into a smooth mirror, exactly like a mobile phone screen!

At the same time, because it was a high-level intelligent chip equipped with human language, the Variable Stone directly spoke its first sentence after its birth in human voice.

At this time, the Variable Stone machine was like a smart phone, and one side of the screen lit up, and a virtual avatar automatically synthesized according to the existing data and time settings appeared on the cube screen.

This is a Q-version avatar of a person who is about ten years old, with long white hair tied into a ponytail at the back and a strand of hair on the top of the head. It slowly opened its eyes and said in a clear, capable, and melodious female voice, "Are you... my master?" "

Hmm?" Shi Yu frowned and looked at the Q-version avatar on the Rubik's Cube screen.

"Why is it a Q-version avatar..." "

Are you... my master?" "

It's fine if the virtual image is Q-version, but why is it pixelated?" Shi Yu looked at the fuzzy avatar on the screen that looked like countless small grids, and was speechless for a while. What era is this advanced smart chip from?

"Are you... my master?"

[Teaching success rate]: Average

However, what makes Shi Yu most happy is that the success rate of teaching super skills of advanced intelligent life is actually average? ?

It's average from the beginning, so cool?

"Are you... my master!!"

"Yes, I am your beastmaster." Shi Yu smiled deeply.

"My master is the most handsome and excellent beastmaster in the world, you..." The new little machine made a puzzled sound, which made Shi Yu's heart skip a beat. How could there be a bug?

Am I not handsome, am I not excellent? Even if it's not, you have to think "yes"!

Wait, or even if the initial instructions are set, you still have to guide slowly?

Dean Hao seemed to have said that advanced mechanical life is different from ordinary machines. It is not a low-level machine that rigidly executes programs. It also has a certain ability to think for itself. The initial instructions only play a certain role. If you want to make the mechanical life believe it, you still have to strengthen the settings for a long time...

"It's me." Shi Yu said decisively: "I am the most handsome and excellent beastmaster in the world, Shi Yu."

The avatar on the Rubik's Cube screen hesitated, then nodded, and temporarily chose to believe.

Advanced mechanical life is actually similar to the Heroic Spirits. It will have a certain spiritual connection with the person who set the initial instructions.

So even if there is no contract for the time being, it will regard Shi Yu as its master.

Of course, the various benefits of the contract cannot be enjoyed before this.

"Next, I'll give you a name." Shi Yu looked at the glowing Rubik's Cube and said, "Hmm... Let me think about it. Later, you will complete a research mission and use the dream phantom of a Kirin fossil to transform yourself into a mechanical phantom. This is also the direction of evolution in the future. So the name should also be found in this direction."

"Why not, just call you Rubik's Cube."

"?" The little mechanical avatar disappeared and turned into a pixel question mark.

It can understand the meaning of the name, the meaning of the mission, and the meaning of evolution. Even for a mythical beast like the Kirin, there is a simple record in its basic data that it is a mythical beast representing auspiciousness in the mythological era.

In short, it can understand every word that Shi Yu said, but when it is connected together, it doesn't understand why its name has become "Magic Cube".

"Hmm... it doesn't seem to matter. It's so difficult."

"Just call it Lin?"

In the mythology of Earth, the male Qilin is called Qilin and the female is called Lin, which is similar to the male phoenix being called Feng and the female phoenix being called Huang. Although there is no such saying in the Phoenix Clan in the mythology system of Blue Star, Shi Yu still researched and named the virtual assistant according to this saying.

"Not very good... the name doesn't sound like a girl."

The little machine: "..."

Wait, how about Yao Guang?

Shi Yu pondered. The shaking light in the Big Dipper represents auspiciousness, and the Qilin is also an auspicious beast. Moreover, this name seems to be quite suitable for mechanical life... Wait

, after reading it carefully, Shi Yu felt that this name was a bit like a villain and not friendly.

It gave people a sense of déjà vu that it would kill the owner and destroy the planet.

It was not auspicious at all.

The avatar in the Rubik's Cube said seriously: "Master, please think carefully..."

"Forget it, let's call it 'Lin', with a different pronunciation for the word 'Lin'." Shi Yu said: "Lin, serious, treat your work seriously, and when you become a mecha in the future, it's better to be majestic and majestic."

The avatar was silent for a while, and accepted it silently again.

It looked at Shi Yu, then looked outside the house, and after another silence, it said: "From today on, I will formulate strict learning and training tasks for the master and your pets."

"Now collect basic intelligence, may I ask how long you meditate every day, master?"

"Uh, meditation? If you have time, meditate for a while, if you don't have time, just forget it, everything depends on fate, see if you have time that day."

Lin: !!!

"According to scientific research, the best meditation time for a beastmaster is 8 hours a day, so for the sake of my master, you can sign a contract with me as soon as possible. From now on, you must maintain a strict meditation time of eight hours a day."

Shi Yu had a strange expression. Wait, was there something wrong when setting the initial instructions? Why are you still in charge of me?

"I will make a training plan as soon as possible. Next, I will collect the daily training situation of my companions." After saying that, it wanted to go out to find eleven of them.

"Don't worry, don't worry..."

"No, it's my fault for wasting too much time."

"Ah..." Shi Yu looked at the turning Rubik's Cube, like a confused little shark, looking at the ceiling, always feeling that there was something wrong with the design this time.

It seems that a troublesome guy has been designed. How can I slack off? Is it so serious?

Outside.

As the mechanical Lin came out, Eleven, Chong Chong, Shen Baobao, Chi Tong, Su Su and others immediately surrounded him, with a look of novelty and curiosity.

At the same time, the mechanical Lin also carefully observed the companions in the setting.

Iron-eating beast... a medium-level extraordinary race. Unknown butterfly, suspected to be a bug system. Shen Baobao, a high-level extraordinary race. Unknown spirit, should be a dead spirit system. Water slime, a high-level extraordinary race!

Its main mission is to help its master and companions become stronger. In addition, it is hardworking, diligent, and willing to work hard. It has a rock-hard perseverance and a strong sense of responsibility for its work and tasks... So, it immediately asked Eleven about their current training tasks, wanting to make a more detailed and scientific training plan for them.

It thinks it can do it!

The moment it saw its companions, the basic data of Mechanical Rin quickly arranged and combined a theoretically very scientific training plan.

"Huh! Uh!!"...

And facing the questions of the new companions, Eleven and the others naturally answered them seriously and talked at once.

"Beep beep!! (Now is the stage of will training. I have to transform into a juvenile form and swim in a volcano, jump from a height of ten thousand meters...)"

"Hmm!! Hmm!! (Recently, I have been talking to the successive dragon gods of Ryugu Castle in my dreams... and trying to piece together their racial strengths and stick them to myself.)"

"Eh! (I have been studying the concepts of 'reincarnation' and 'rebirth' recently. If time passes, is it possible to summon the power of the reincarnated life form from its previous life?)"

Shi Yu came out soon after, but he was still a little late.

In the outside world, the screen of the mechanical Rin was blurred, and the expression of the avatar turned into "@.@" with blurry eyes, as if he was overloaded with thinking. Beside him, Eleven and the others looked panicked.

I just told it about the daily training situation, how come it became like this!

Rin: "Analysis failed... Restarting... Restarting..."

Shi Yu: "..."

Let's raise Rin's intelligence first.

At the current intelligence level, it may be difficult to understand the logic of their daily behavior.

Not to mention the epic tasks of researching mechanical phantom beasts and combined mechas, I'm afraid it will be difficult for novice tasks to be completed alive.

[Name]: Rin

[Attributes]: Mechanical, Wind

[Racial Level]: High King

[Growth Level]: Awakening Level 1

[Racial Skills]: Versatile, High Intelligence, Control of Wind Element

Shi Yu touched Rin twice.

[Teaching Success]

[Advanced Intelligence (Beginner) has been upgraded to Advanced Intelligence (Proficient)]

At this moment, Rin's eyes instantly became a little wiser, but she still felt confused after feeling the upgrade of intelligence.

"I can't understand..."

Seeing the stupid mechanical Rin, the eleventh-level pet shook his head. Mechanical life is not very smart, is this a top student? !