mousepad-d2 Chapter 29: Armed White Night Eagle
Chapter 29: Armed White Night Eagle
At this moment, the mechanical sage looked at the grown-up boy, and the mirror ring on the mechanical clone's chest slowly turned, his voice full of disdain.
"You don't come here unless you need something. You're usually so busy you're nowhere to be seen. You only remember there's an old man here in the Arctic when you need something from me. So stop beating around the bush and get to the point."
Zhang Qiming wasn't annoyed at all; instead, he grinned.
"Dora Cole, can you make me a gun?"
As he spoke, he raised his hand and transmitted the blueprint for the [White Night Eagle] through his personal terminal.
Mechanical Coul initially seemed indifferent, but as soon as the blueprint unfolded on the light screen, his mechanical arms stopped simultaneously, and even the observation lenses around his chest noticeably contracted for a moment.
"Um?"
The next second, the clone leaned forward, and several mechanical arms simultaneously pulled the light screen closer, beginning to quickly examine the details of the blueprints from different angles.
"interesting……"
His previous laziness vanished instantly, replaced by the almost instinctive focus of a craftsman when he sees something good.
"Guided smart weapons... no, this is a bit different. It's not the same as the smart weapons the Church currently uses, which rely on external identification modules, dedicated signal chains, and custom-made ammunition."
After thinking for a moment, Caul continued:
"This thing is very ingenious. It completely entrusts intelligent guidance to the gun's mechanical soul, allowing the gun's own mechanical soul to guide and correct the trajectory."
"In other words, there's no need to specially manufacture those ridiculously expensive smart bullets."
"As long as the gun body and the machine spirit are stable, the White Night Eagle can automatically track and correct its trajectory after the bullet leaves the barrel, relying on its own machine spirit structure."
As he spoke, Mechanical Kaul turned and walked deeper into the manufacturing base.
That's a separate workshop dedicated to making weapons. Unlike the prosthetic body processing table and skeleton assembly area outside, this area is clearly more like a military production line. Rows of gun barrel blanks, receiver modules and calibration frames are hanging on the walls. In the center is a circular precision machining table, surrounded by six weapon manufacturing arms that can switch processes. There are also independent machine soul calibration seats and cryogenic shaping chambers next to it. Even the ground is cut into pieces by different functional tracks.
Zhang Qiming: "The engineering gears are currently on the Jingwei. Without the engineering gears, can you manufacture this gun using your own module production line?"
Upon hearing this, Mechanical Kaul didn't even turn his head, his tone full of displeasure at being offended.
"Whom are you looking down on?"
"Without engineering gears, I can't build guns?"
"Your drawing is ingenious, but it's not so outrageous as to exceed the limits of our technology. I can make it myself!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the several robotic arms on his body began to move simultaneously.
One robotic arm adjusts the material ratio, another starts the barrel cutting program, two auxiliary arms begin to remove module nodes from the weapon blueprint, and the remaining arms pull out the parts list and calibration parameters at the workstation.
"Give me half a day. Find a place to stay put and don't get in my way."
After saying that, Kaul couldn't be bothered to pay him any more attention.
Soon, a series of tight and restrained mechanical forging sounds filled the entire weapons workshop, as the mechanical Coul was completely absorbed in his work.
Seeing this, Zhang Qiming simply closed his eyes, sat down in the chair and began to cultivate. Among the new abilities he gained as a Mechanist was a skill called [Mechanical Force Refining Method].
This is the method by which Martian native professionals gain experience; they can gain a certain amount of experience points by idling and training.
This cultivation method can provide a stable amount of experience every day, but the amount of experience gained is not fixed and mainly depends on luck and aptitude.
Therefore, if you really want to rely on it to forcefully raise your professional level, it will take a very long time.
With Zhang Qiming's current luck and aptitude, a full day of cultivation would probably only give him a little over 1000 experience points. Compared to a Master of the Myriad Machines with 50,000 experience points, that's nothing. If he really wanted to level up, he would have to AFK for more than a month.
Time passed by little by little.
When the commotion in the weapons workshop finally subsided, Zhang Qiming naturally came out of that slow and continuous AFK state.
He opened his eyes, first exhaling softly, then looking up ahead.
Mechanical Cole was already standing next to the workstation, and on the assembly table in front of him, the White Night Eagle was lying there quietly.
Zhang Qiming got up and walked to the assembly table, looking down at the newly made White Night Eagle.
The gun has a sleek design with a tight overall shape and no unnecessary parts. The main color is a dark gray-black metal. Several narrow guide rails and sensor lines can be seen on the edge of the handguard and receiver, extending forward along the gun body like feather veins. The sights and the sensor module on the top of the receiver are integrated into one unit.
The next second, a series of numbers that only he could see appeared in his field of vision.
——【Intelligent Assault Rifle - White Night Eagle】——
Type: Smart Assault Rifle
Quality: Premium/Blue
Attack power: 90~145
Weight: 4.6 kg
Length: 83 cm
Ammunition: Standard rifle cartridges / compatible with general ammunition
characteristic:
[Awakened Mech Soul: White Night Eagle]: This weapon has been given a low-level mech soul. After long-term use, it can record the user's shooting habits and gradually improve its compatibility.
[Mech Soul Assisted Aim]: When firing, the weapon's mech soul will automatically correct slight bullet trajectory deviations, increasing the hit rate by 8%.
[Daytime Target Search]: Slightly corrects tracking of high-speed moving targets within 30 meters, and reduces target evasion accuracy by 3%.
[Compatible with Standard Ammunition]: No special smart bullets are required. Standard ammunition, after being calibrated by the weapon's built-in AI, can also achieve a low-level guidance effect.
[Note: A silent hunting bird lies perched in its owner's palm, waiting for the moment the trigger is pulled to point the bullet along the line closest to death.]
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Mechanical Cole stood to the side, saying with a sense of accomplishment:
"Want to give it a try?"
Zhang Qiming didn't say anything, but simply reached out and picked up the White Night Eagle from its workstation.
He first ran his thumb across the safety and fire selector to feel the damping, then rested the butt on his shoulder, lowered his head slightly, and let his line of sight naturally align with the sights and the barrel.
Then, he activated [Soothing the Machine Soul], and a wisp of mechanical force seeped into his palm and the trigger guard.
The feeling was peculiar, as if a small creature that was half asleep suddenly stirred gently deep inside the gun.
Zhang Qiming could clearly feel the feedback from the White Night Eagle. The low-level mechanical spirit that had just been born inside the gun was slowly awakening with his mechanical power. It cautiously probed at first, and then gradually approached, like a hunting bird resting on its master's wrist bone and folding its wings.
Zhang Qiming's lips curled up slightly.
"Very well, you are my first weapon—White Night Eagle."
After saying that, he immediately activated the [Weapon Contract] and began to contract his first weapon.
[You activate the ritual skill: Weapon Binding Seal!]
[Target: Smart Assault Rifle - White Night Eagle]
[Contract established in progress]
[Created successfully!]
You have entered into a weapon contract with the "White Night Eagle"!
[Current Weapon: White Night Eagle]
[Growth Progress: 0/100000]
[Tip: Experience can be consumed to infuse the weapon and advance it to the next stage.]
[Hint: Weaponry space has been unlocked.]
The contract was complete, and the White Night Eagle officially became Zhang Qiming's first weapon. With a slight thought, the White Night Eagle flashed from his palm and was directly stored in his weapon space.