This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 125: The Great Mechanic - Castellon's Shock

This is exactly what Chen Jinglong feels is tricky, no one will refuse him passage.

But he was not sure whether Li Ming had this ability. Even if Li Ming had amazing potential for development, he was the last bottom line of the Polytechnic University.

The Polytechnic University was not established for Li Ming alone.

"Why don't you concentrate on developing gene seeds?" Chen Jinglong seemed helpless.

"The two are not in conflict. I only started thinking about mechas after I had developed them to exhaustion," Li Ming explained.

Chen Jinglong suddenly thought of a key question, his eyes sharp, "How far have you come in terms of development progress?"

“35%,” Li Ming told frankly.

Li Ming could clearly see that the dean's expression froze for a moment. Where he couldn't see, Chen Jinglong clenched and unclenched his hands behind his back.

After a long silence, he said, "I don't know much about mechanics, so I'll take you to Professor Xia for an evaluation first."

"No problem." Li Ming packed up the metal box and followed Chen Jinglong to Xia Yuanlun's mechanical laboratory.

After arriving and getting out of the car, Li Ming discovered that there were several hovercrafts parked here, and they were all "embassy" vehicles, apparently visitors.

"It's the car from the embassy of the Aishan Civilization. Yes, Xia Yuanlun's old friend is here." Chen Jinglong seemed to remember something.

"Here..." Ding Hui panted and jogged over, his head covered in dust and there were dry black marks on both sides of his temples, which were condensed from sweat and dust.

"Brother Ding, why is it so miserable?" Li Ming was quite surprised.

"Don't mention it. The teacher has been in a bad mood these past two days." Ding Hui said hello to Chen Jinglong with a gloomy face, and then explained to Li Ming: "Mr. Castellon is here."

"It's indeed him, the great mechanic - Castellón." Chen Jinglong was not surprised at all.

"Great mechanic?" Li Ming was surprised, and then asked.

"The so-called great mechanic is just a general title. There is no clear standard. Anyone who can build A-level weapons or has participated in the design and manufacture of star-destroying weapons can get it," Ding Hui explained.

"He can make A-level weapons, so he must be very powerful." Li Ming thought for a moment: "Are you here to exchange ideas with Professor Xia?"

"What do you mean by exchange and study?" Ding Hui smiled bitterly. "When the teacher was young, he once studied at the Yitlan Huangzhong Mechanical College. He was a classmate of Castellon and they were very competitive at one time."

"Later, the teacher returned to Blue Star, and Castellon stayed there to continue his studies. He became more and more powerful and often humiliated the teacher."

Li Ming was surprised. "This Castellon came here specifically to belittle Professor Xia?"

"There is one of their classmates in the Itlan Investigation Team. Castelon should be here waiting in advance." Chen Jinglong explained.

"Oh oh." Li Ming suddenly realized and heard Ding Hui continue: "Mr. Castellon's mouth is really poisonous. We have been humiliated by him one by one in the past two days. We almost got depressed."

"It sounds miserable." Li Ming grinned.

"This way..." Ding Hui led the way: "Teacher has been trying to avoid Castellon these past two days."

They soon arrived at Xia Yuanlun's office. Li Ming had been there once, so Ding Hui knocked on the door and stepped aside to let the two of them in.

Li Ming fell behind by half a step. As soon as Chen Jinglong stepped in, he heard Xia Yuanlun's gnashing voice: "What are you doing here again? I've already given you ten mother ores. There's no more!"

Ah? Did you get those ten mother ores from Professor Xia?

No wonder he agreed so readily. It turns out he doesn’t feel bad about things that aren’t his.

Li Ming paused, and Xia Yuanlun then realized that Li Ming was following him. The gnashing of teeth on his face immediately subsided.

It can be seen that Professor Xia has been feeling very depressed these past two days.

"Professor." Li Ming greeted.

Chen Jinglong's face was not embarrassed. He sat down and said calmly, "I came to see you because of him."

"Li Ming..." Professor Xia rubbed his temples: "If you have anything to say, just come to me. There's no need to call him over."

"This matter is a little different. He wants to apply for a small laboratory." Chen Jinglong said.

"Apply for a small laboratory?" Professor Xia was also a little surprised, but then waved his hand, looking tired: "Apply for it, and when the professorial committee convenes, I will vote in favor."

Chen Jinglong frowned, "I need your help to review the application materials he brought out."

"Let me review it?" Professor Xia was confused.

Then Chen Jinglong waved his hand, and the alloy box that Li Ming was carrying opened from the center. The tank guard hanging on the support column instantly attracted Xia Yuanlun's attention.

He ran over in a hurry, stroking the alloy surface with his palm as if he was seeing a peerless beauty.

"This..." Xia Yuanlun was not an expert in this area. He saw the key point in just a few minutes.

"This... this was made by you, right? Is this the heavy armor you told me about before? How did it turn into a mecha?" Xia Yuanlun looked at Li Ming excitedly.

Chen Jinglong frowned slightly. He saw it at a glance. Were these two guys acting?
"How can you be sure that this was made by Li Ming?" Chen Jinglong asked.

"Apart from Li Ming's style, I've only seen such a neat forging process on an assembly line." Xia Yuanlun's eyes were burning. "A small laboratory must be qualified. If anyone says he's not qualified, I'll be angry with him!"

"Yes, yes..." Xia Yuanlun was in high spirits, as if he suddenly thought of something. He closed the metal box, dragged Li Ming out.

"Come, follow me, damn Castellon, I can't scare you to death this time!" He murmured, his old face flushed.

Chen Jinglong's eyes flickered and he followed.

Before reaching the large factory, Li Ming heard a sharp and piercing sound coming faintly.

"Is that the idiot Xia Yuanlun handed it to you like this?"

"With your level, you might as well replace it with a few forging robots."

"They're still using this crude method of press forging!"

As he listened to the voice, Xia Yuanlun's face became darker and darker.

With a bang, the door was pushed open suddenly, and the scorching heat hit me in the face. Cheng Tienan, Ding Hui and other familiar faces were all there.

Except for Cheng Tienan, everyone else looked unhappy.

"Oh, Xia Yuanlun, I thought you really turned into a coward and didn't dare to show up."

Who is speaking?

Li Ming was stunned for a moment, then looked down, his expression became extremely interesting.

I saw a short red man walking out from behind a workbench not far away. He had thick arms and a thick red beard on both sides of his cheeks. He looked very sturdy and his eyes were wide open.

dwarf?

"That kid, what's with that look?" Castellon said bluntly: "You humans just like racial discrimination!"

"Uh, sir, this stereotype seems to be racial discrimination?" Li Ming hesitated.

"Humph, the people under Xia Yuanlun really only know how to argue." Castellon obviously had a deep grudge against Professor Xia. "Casellon, I told you three days ago that you are not welcome here, why are you still staying here?" Xia Yuanlun said coldly.

"I like staying here." Castellon sneered and glanced at the metal box Xia Yuanlun was carrying. He seemed to have discovered something through the gap.

Then he grinned, flashed, and snatched the metal box from Xia Yuanlun's hand.

Such a fast speed! Li Ming's eyes narrowed slightly. He didn't know what level of life form this guy was.

"Castellon!" Xia Yuanlun's face changed drastically.

However, Castellon seemed to have discovered some secret and opened it immediately, revealing the Tank Guard mecha in front of everyone.

"Haha..." Castellon glanced down, touched it again, raised his eyebrows slightly, and then laughed:

"Xia Yuanlun, Xia Yuanlun, I thought your skills had remained the same over the years, but I didn't expect that you have regressed so much."

"Did you build this mecha?" he asked.

Xia Yuanlun frowned: "So what?"

"I came all the way here to humiliate you, but it seems like you're not even worthy of being humiliated by me. Look at this forging technique, it's soulless."

"As a heavy mecha, it doesn't even have an energy engine, an ammunition compartment, or energy weapons. Its intelligence is too low, too low!"

"And these useless edges and complicated patterns, tsk tsk... just for defense, right?"

"It's already the standard of a C-class mecha. What's the point of just defending? Where is the outlet for releasing the ability? This is the cage you built for yourself, for fear that others will win."

"The shock absorption system is just average, the hydraulic transmission has no special features, and there is not even a magnetic shaft? What about the temperature control system? What about the air filtration system? It is no different from something that came off the assembly line."

"Wrong, it's not even as good as the junk from the assembly line!"

Castellon cursed loudly, and Li Ming touched his nose. He really didn't realize there were so many shortcomings.

This thing directly uses his physical strength to upgrade all the way, so naturally it does not need an energy engine.

The others were all shaped by the control system, so he didn't pay much attention to them, and mainly focused on defense.

As for the outlet for releasing his abilities, he could use the characteristics of the Sword Wing Knight to attach his own elemental abilities to the mecha, which was not necessary.

"Of course, the only advantage is the fusion technology of the parent ore and the alloy material." Castellon did not blindly belittle it. He at least mentioned one advantage and said casually: "The hardness of this alloy is quite acceptable."

In fact, Castellon was quite surprised, because he had never seen such fusion technology before, and it almost perfectly matched its own alloy material.

It makes the mother ore display its characteristics to the extreme, and takes the overall defense to a higher level, which is very unique.

Of course he couldn't praise him, but after he finished scolding him, when he looked up, he found Xia Yuanlun grinning and laughing.

"Are you crazy because of my scolding?" He frowned.

Xia Yuanlun sneered: "Just barely acceptable? The fusion rate of the heavy earth mother ore and its alloy material is probably no less than 95%. In your eyes, it is only slightly acceptable?"

Castellon curled his lips. "It's quite impressive, but if you don't even have this level, it's not worth it for me to come over and scold you."

"No matter how high the fusion rate is, it can't cover up the other shortcomings of this mecha. You have regressed too seriously."

Although he said this, he actually knew in his heart that it was most likely Xia Yuanlun's test product. If he could maintain this fusion rate on other weapons.

I'm afraid its level will reach a new level.

"If it was really made by me, then you are right to belittle it." Xia Yuanlun said leisurely.

Castellon was stunned when he heard this. "What do you mean it was really made by you?"

"Castellon, let me tell you the truth, this mecha was not made by me, but by him." Xia Yuanlun pointed at Li Ming.

"Him?" Castellon turned to look at the silent Li Ming and sneered, "How old is he?"

"It should be nineteen." Xia Yuanlun said.

"That's impossible!" Castellon said firmly, and then sneered: "Have I pushed you to this extent?"

"Find a young man to fool me?"

If this mecha was built by Xia Yuanlun, then he has many shortcomings. After all, he is a senior talent who has studied at Huangzhong Mechanical College, so Xia Yuanlun is still quite talented.

Although not as good as him.

But if this mecha was built by this young man, it would be completely different.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Ding Hui and Cheng Tiannan running over hurriedly, staring at the tank guard mecha carefully, and muttering to each other.

"There are almost no traces of manual work. It really looks like Li Ming's technique." Ding Hui couldn't help but be amazed.

"Well, if it's not a product of the assembly line, then it was made by Li Ming." Cheng Tienan's tone became more certain.

"A group of people are trying to deceive me?" Castellon still didn't believe it, so Ding Hui explained, "It's really him. The pair of boxing gloves you criticized before were left by him."

"Huh? He is Li Ming? The talented boy you mentioned." Castellon was suspicious. He had heard Ding Hui mention it these past two days, saying that this guy named Li Ming had a high sensitivity to materials.

He was a little disdainful at first. How could someone be taller than a dwarf?
The fusion of mother ore and alloy has indeed reached an exaggerated level.

This matter is actually not difficult to verify. The worst that can happen is to let him make a new one. If Xia Yuanlun uses this method to frame him, it is indeed not presentable and meaningless.

Instead, it will lead to even more fierce ridicule from him.

so…

Castellón's face changed slightly and he looked at Li Ming. He was able to make a C-class mecha at the age of nineteen. Although he had many shortcomings, with a little training, he would definitely be a great mechanic in the future.

Do humans have this talent?

There is also the mother ore fusion technology. Even with his material sensitivity, it is difficult to achieve such a high level of assistance in forging the optical computer.

In the interstellar age, most of the hard labor and repetitive processes can be replaced by machines or assisted by intelligent means.

But that last bit of perfection and spirituality cannot be replaced.

Even hundreds of millions of simulations by intelligent systems cannot compare to a single sudden burst of inspiration.

"With a little guidance, the child has come out of this." Xia Yuanlun held his head high and paced slowly: "By the way, I heard that your son was admitted to Huangzhong Mechanical College. I haven't congratulated you yet."

"I also persevered for two or three months, and made several mistakes during that time. I didn't really reach this level, I just worked hard to get there." Li Ming explained: "There are still many shortcomings in other aspects."

"I suddenly remembered that I have something else to do." Castelon said expressionlessly as he walked straight past the crowd.

"Don't leave in a hurry. Li Ming still wants to learn from you." Xia Yuanlun shouted.

As the words fell, Castellon's figure had disappeared in the corridor.

"Ha!" Xia Yuanlun let out a breath of anger, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes widened.

(End of this chapter)