Gu Ya stood up and walked quickly towards Liang Xun, shouting, "Mentor!"
Liang Xun, who was browsing goods, saw Gu Ya and gave an awkward laugh, "Ah, little hero, we meet again, haha!"
A short young boy, no older than ten, emerged from a nearby shop. In a high-pitched voice, he said, "Master, the tea and snacks are bought. We've been stuck in the lab for a month, and it's our first time out, only to buy snacks and go back. It's so disappointing..."
Liang Xun quickly covered the young boy's mouth and smiled sheepishly at Gu Ya again.
Gu Ya's face darkened, and he asked coldly, "Mentor, have you been deliberately avoiding me this past month?"
"Master, who is he?" the young boy, his mouth still covered, managed to squeeze out a sound.
Five minutes later,
The group sat around a round table at a roadside café.
Liang Xun smiled apologetically and said, "Mainly, I wanted you to consolidate your foundation before I tested you, haha!"
"I won't wait. Test me today. Otherwise, I'll break into your research institute and force you to take me," Gu Ya, on solid ground, spoke coldly without yielding.
Liang Xun smiled awkwardly and sheepishly, "There's no need for that, haha! Besides, my tests are very difficult and require a finished product."
Gu Ya stared into Liang Xun's eyes and reluctantly pulled out the patents for a mecha motorcycle and exoskeleton armor, saying plainly, "Is this enough? If not, I'll stay up late tonight and come up with something else."
"Ah!?" Liang Xun's eyes widened.
Even the young boy beside her looked at Gu Ya's patents in disbelief.
Leng Yun wore an expression of relief, staring blankly at the street view.
"Master, he seems to be a bit more formidable than me..." the young boy said, glancing at Liang Xun.
Gu Ya continued, "Today, you have no choice but to take me in."
Liang Xun put on a stern face, pondered for a long time, then smiled, "Oh dear, this is difficult! The procedures for early testing are very troublesome! Those old fossils in the academy will definitely make things difficult for me again."
Gu Ya smiled faintly and said, "Procedures, you say? Tell me where to go, and I'll have it done by tomorrow."
"Eh?" Liang Xun seemed disbelieving.
...
The next day, Gu Ya arrived before Liang Xun with a formal paper copy of the admission procedures.
"How did you do it?" Liang Xun asked in surprise.
How did he do it? [Code Tampering] was a divine-level cheat skill. Was there anything Gu Ya couldn't get? His experience of unauthorized entry into the Xian China Defense Academy was proof enough.
"I have connections in the academy," Gu Ya said plainly.
In the Mecha Mechanics Academy, research teams were as numerous as blades of grass. Who would notice if one more or one less person joined a team?
Moreover, with Gu Ya's perfect execution, the test content, reports, filings, and archives were all complete. If anyone, with nothing better to do, decided to investigate, Gu Ya had ten thousand ways to silence them.
"You start learning today!" Gu Ya said sternly.
Mainly, seeing Liang Xun's conflicted yet forced smile, Gu Ya became somewhat angry.
Seeing that the situation had come to this, Liang Xun had nothing more to say.
She was the one who asked Gu Ya to come here to study. Now that Gu Ya had arrived, she was avoiding him; she was in the wrong.
Furthermore, considering Gu Ya's outstanding personal strength and his fervent desire to learn, it would be wrong for Liang Xun not to take him in.
Two months after his enrollment, in early December, on a drizzly morning, Gu Ya finally sat before his mentor, Liang Xun, as he had wished, officially beginning his first lesson.
At this point, Mentor Liang Xun finally let go of all her reservations and fully dedicated herself to teaching Gu Ya.
"So, the first question, do you know the primary responsibilities of a mecha mechanic?" Liang Xun asked with a serious smile.
"During combat and missions, to repair mechas for oneself and teammates," Gu Ya replied.
Liang Xun nodded and said with lingering interest, "Basically correct, but not entirely. What about battlefield mecha mechanics, do you know what they do?"
Gu Ya thought for a moment and said, "To fight enemies on the battlefield and perform emergency repairs on teammates' mechas."
Liang Xun smiled and said, "No, not to repair teammates' mechas, but their own."
Gu Ya was puzzled.
Liang Xun continued, "Actually, 'repair' isn't quite accurate; it should be called 'modification.'"
"How is it modified?" Gu Ya was even more confused.
Liang Xun tapped the holographic system on the table. In the pale blue bordered holographic projection that popped up, a mecha was kneeling on one knee, rapidly picking up some broken mecha parts from the ground.
Gu Ya didn't understand what this mecha was doing. He leaned closer to observe carefully.
The mecha wasn't operating randomly. It was picking up mecha parts from the ground and comparing them to its own chassis. Finding them unsuitable, it would switch to another part.
Gu Ya noticed that these broken mecha parts were not for this mecha's model. Some belonged to Xianxia Army mechas, and others to Black Star Army mechas.
Yet, it very patiently sorted through them, choosing for about five minutes before finally finding a suitable arm.
Soon, this mecha attached the suitable arm to its chassis.
However, Gu Ya noticed that this mecha was completely intact. It had essentially installed a broken arm onto its shoulder mounting interface.
"What is the purpose?" Gu Ya asked, bewildered.
Liang Xun smiled and said, "Keep watching."
The next fifteen minutes of footage were truly beyond Gu Ya's comprehension.
He could finally understand why they were called battlefield mecha mechanics.
The mecha quickly and accurately selected suitable broken mecha parts and assembled them piece by piece.
The key point was that these mecha parts were not of the same model, and some even had different connection interfaces.
How did it manage to piece together incompatible mecha parts?
As the footage continued, the mecha gradually finished assembling all the broken parts and then, using three arms, lifted the bizarre-looking behemoth it had assembled.
"This is!" Gu Ya's eyes widened. He had never imagined such a maneuver!
That's right, this mecha had pieced together all the broken parts to assemble an incredibly grotesque giant cannon!
Subsequently, the mecha used its own bio-energy power supply conduits to charge this ugly giant cannon. The energy progress was controlled with extreme precision, neither overloading to the point of destroying the cannon nor failing to maximize its output.
After completing all this, in just twenty minutes, the mecha, carrying the assembled giant cannon, soared into the sky.
Liang Xun turned off the footage and said to Gu Ya with a smile, "Do you understand? We use everything we can to sustain our combat. This is what a battlefield mecha mechanic is."
"Of course, when it's not an emergency, we also assemble temporary weapons for other combat personnel."
"And the source of all these things is those scrapped, damaged, and fallen mechas. Regardless of whether they are friendly or enemy, mechas are treasures in our eyes."
Gu Ya nodded and asked, "However, doing this can't be simple, right? One must be familiar with all sorts of mechas and ground attack weapons. Familiar with their components, mechanisms, the functions and principles of their assemblies, and all interface types, as well as power-to-weight ratio, output throttling, energy pulse frequency, ammunition aperture, in short, one needs to know a lot to complete these temporary modifications."
Liang Xun nodded and smiled, "Exactly, you've hit the key point. That's why we must constantly be in a learning state. Both friendly and enemy mechas and ground attack weapons are rapidly developing. To adapt to war, several new weapons are invented every day."
"What we do is not like scientists, sitting in laboratories or studies to think and research. We are practitioners, flexibly applying all usable scientific technologies. Of course, we also need a bit of miscellaneous knowledge and aesthetics."
Battlefield mecha mechanics were an entirely new field, different from pure mecha pilots!
Gu Ya's expression suddenly became serious, "I suddenly realize that with my current mecha repair level, I cannot reach this degree. I need to learn more."
Liang Xun patted Gu Ya's shoulder and smiled, "Take your time, you're still young. Ah, right, that's your senior brother. Although he's younger than you, he started earlier."
Gu Ya turned to look behind him at the effeminate young boy.
The young boy brought his index and middle fingers together on his right hand, holding the other three fingers, and drew a line from his temple forward. He grinned and said, "Hello there, my name is Fu Fei, you can call me Little Fu~☆"
"Gu Ya, it's a pleasure. Mentor, how long will it take to fully master this?"
Liang Xun was somewhat surprised and asked, "Are you in a hurry?"
Gu Ya nodded and said something that surprised both Liang Xun and Fu Fei.