The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 711 Going to the battlefield? Think again, let's get back to testing!
"First test of the warship's close-in weapon system, commence!"

Shen Le sat on the foredeck, holding a huge stack of lists, facing Yun Kun's helm and the porcelain pagoda in front of it. To his left was an officer, and to his right a Special Affairs Bureau researcher, each carrying a laptop and camera equipment, stood ready.
"First, the synesthetic experiment! Zhenyue, can you connect your senses with Yunkun, the compass, and the scroll, and make them see what you see?"

"I'll try..." Zhen Yue replied somewhat uncertainly. Inside the porcelain tower, two porcelain swords touched, producing a soft clinking sound.

After a while, she answered somewhat flusteredly:

"It doesn't seem to be working... I can't find the right feeling... How can I tell them?"

"Don't worry, don't worry," Shen Le patiently comforted it. Then, he closed his eyes slightly and entered a meditative state. In his sea of ​​consciousness, tiny points of light began to illuminate:

"Yun Kun?"

【exist!】

"compass?"

【exist!】

"A scroll?"

[Here! ]

"Wedding dress?"

[Yes, yes! ]

"Li Xingtang?"

【exist!】

The little creatures on the ship answered one by one. Centered on Shen Le, several points of light formed a radial structure, and the points of light then crisscrossed and connected with each other.

Finally, Shen Le brought Zhen Yue in as well, connecting him to the network. Immediately, several points of light nearby tentatively shot beams of light towards it.
[Take the call!]

[Please accept this!]

See, it's connected now...

Can you see it now? Can you see what I can see?

Two more researchers rushed out of the cabin. With a few clicks, a huge LCD screen was erected to Shen Le's left front and the cables were connected.

Soon, the screen flickered and displayed the scene in the cockpit: the compass needle spun wildly, and a miniature map of the surrounding area appeared on the scroll; with each rotation of the needle, the map expanded outwards by one ring...

"Did you see that?" In Shen Le's sea of ​​consciousness, the compass repeatedly asked:
[This is a map of the surrounding area. Did you see it clearly?]

[Look closely!] Zhenyue finally let out a joyful cry:
[I can see it very clearly! — I can see it even more clearly, for example, here, here, here…]

Shen Le couldn't immediately grasp the meaning behind its string of "here." However, the little creatures' telepathic communication was clearly much faster and more accurate than mere language.

Soon, dots appeared on the rising miniature map. Expanding and zooming in, some were reefs, some were buoys, some were bobbing poles, and some were sea fish:

Officers immediately rushed forward to check the documents and verify the records. The vast majority were correct, but a few buoys and poles looked suspicious:

"Send a drone to check? They shouldn't be in this area recently; there was no registration, and no permission was given for their release..."

【No need! No need!】 Zhen Yue shouted enthusiastically:

【I'll go! Give me some time, it'll be quick!】

Before the words were even finished, the porcelain tower shone brightly, and a white line shot through the air, soaring straight into the sky. Before the officers could even blink, the white line had already disappeared into the distance with a whooshing sound.

Only the officer on the ship's side remained, reluctantly putting down his instruments, looking regretful.
"We didn't even have time to measure the speed... what is that?"

"It's okay, the speed test is later... Let me see, it's on the second page, no rush," Shen Le reassured him.

"Don't worry, I won't leave so soon. I'll definitely stay here with you. Unless there's an urgent mission, I promise to stay until all the projects are tested!"

"That task is also very urgent." The officer looked at the list in his hand, a thick stack, each page densely covered with writing:

"We only have one month... Next month, there will be a multinational joint military exercise, and it would be best to go and take a look... By the way, if Zhenyue is to be deployed, it will still need to be integrated into combat operations, so it won't be a month yet, at most half a month..."

"No problem! Leave it to me! I can work non-stop!" Shen Le patted his chest confidently.

"You guys need to prepare for staff rotation, three shifts. I don't need to sleep too much, I just need to meditate for a few hours!"

In fact, he probably doesn't even need to be with them all the time. The little ones have boundless energy; they're the ones who can work 24/7. As for Shen Le, he just needs to get up and soothe them when they throw a tantrum…

While the two sides exchanged information, the testers recorded data and wrote test reports. Zhenyue's sensing range wasn't much larger than the compass's; after all, the compass was the expert in large-area scanning.
However, with the wide coverage of the compass, Zhenyue can quickly point out the nodes of the earth veins, the location of the water veins, and where there are strange things, and where there are gloomy or uncomfortable things.

Essentially, one person opens the entire map, while the other quickly marks the "important" or "strange" parts on it. Working together, the efficiency more than doubles; it's practically quadrupled!

The data had just been entered when, with a soft whoosh, a white light streaked through the air. With a gentle flick, the soaking wet pontoons were tossed onto the deck, and the laser beam shot into the tower.
Only then did the officer standing beside him realize that the white light was a small sword, a porcelain sword less than half a foot long and as wide as a leek leaf.

And this tiny porcelain sword, wrapped in a float over a meter long, as thick as a bowl, and at least a hundred times heavier than itself, floated lightly into the air...

"How far?"

"35 kilometers." The officer in charge of the measurement, sweating profusely, switched back and forth between the screen displaying the scroll, the radar image, and the instrument calculations, typing for a while before finally replying:
"35.87 kilometers..."

"Alas, the flying sword..."

A collective gasp rippled through the crowd. This small porcelain flying sword, at least within a 35-kilometer range, possessed considerable lethality?
As they talked, the other flying swords returned one after another. Some carried poles, some carried a sea turtle, and some carried a large rock—the bottom of the rock was as smooth as a mirror, clearly having just been cut off by the sword light.

Shen Le sighed, raised his hand and bowed slightly to the side. The teacher in charge of lecturing Yun Kun had no choice but to step forward and give the porcelain tower an apologetic smile.

“Zhenyue, the sea turtle you brought back is a loggerhead turtle, a Class I protected animal in China. It is forbidden to hunt, kill, or eat it…”

Unless it does something particularly unacceptable, we shouldn't touch it. Please put it back safely in its original place, okay?

Zhenyue chirped softly. Shen Le listened intently for a moment, then turned to answer on his behalf:
"Zhenyue said it had something dirty on it and needed to be cleaned off. Zhenyue also asked, 'What is a Class I protected animal? Which sea turtle can be hunted, and which can't?' That's it… The teacher felt a wave of dizziness. Another student, another student with absolutely no modern common sense, requiring him to start from scratch. He's probably stuck on this ship for life…"

Shen Le brings one, and he has to explain it all from the beginning. Then he brings another one, and he has to explain it all from the beginning again... Can't these little guys have an older brother teaching a younger brother, or an older brother teaching a younger brother? Do they all have to rely on him?

"Um... these are Class I protected animals, which is a bit complicated, we'll talk about it later. Just remember, all sea turtles are Class I protected animals, and you can't kill any of them!"

【Oh……】

Zhenyue trembled slightly. A white light swirled, slicing along the loggerhead's carapace, then along its plastron. Then, the sword tip flicked repeatedly, picking off many small fragments from the loggerhead's body and limbs.
Okay! It's clean now! I'll take it back!

A white light flashed again, sweeping up the sea turtle and disappearing into the distance. Staff members then proceeded to inspect the shards of debris that had been cut off.
"Barnacles, barnacles, barnacles, this is also a barnacle...wait, what's this?"

"Which scoundrel hid electronic devices inside barnacles! That's not how you install tracking chips on sea turtles! -- Damn, it's from the Bald Eagles, no wonder!"

"Zhenyue actually knows how to find foreign electronic devices, that's amazing!"

"Uh, wait a minute, I think what it found might not be electronic equipment... Look at this..."

Another staff member held up tweezers, which held three barnacles stuck together, showing a dark, lumpy substance inside the barnacles:
"Does anyone recognize this thing? It feels really strange to me, even a little disgusting!"

On the other side of the deck, agents from the Special Affairs Bureau strode over, their probes flashing upwards, their expressions immediately turning serious. They swiftly checked the safe, sealed it, and locked it—all in one fluid motion.
"It looks like a finger bone... a human finger bone. I don't know if it's from raising a ghost or something. Anyway, it's not a good thing—damn, how did these families end up together!"

The first test went smoothly, even to a pleasant surprise. Shen Le glanced down at the form in his hand and touched the porcelain tower:
"Zhenyue, well done! Now, let's begin the second item: the transformation experiment. Yunkun will shrink, Zhenyue, you need to cooperate with it and not maintain your original size while it shrinks!"

【No problem! It's just about getting bigger and smaller, right? I can do that too! Leave it to me!】

Yun Kun gently rocked the boat, gracefully beginning to change shape. Those standing on the boat felt almost no discomfort, only noticing the shoreline of the dock rising higher and higher, eventually reaching eye level.

Only Shen Le froze:

"Oh, Zhenyue, you don't need to shrink any further... When Yunkun shrinks, just cooperate and don't stick out of the boat. Just keep your relative size to it the same!"

When you were sitting on the deck, the top of the tower was higher than my head, but now it's lower than my knees... That's unnecessary!
【Oh? Is that so?】

Zhenyue swayed and then leaped into the air. Losing his balance, a sharp "sizzle" sounded in the air, and both Yunkun and Zhenyue cried out in pain.
[Wait, wait! You poked me!]

Ouch! That hurt so much!

Shen Le: "..."

See, testing and such are still necessary, aren't they?
The tests proceeded smoothly, one by one. After testing the combination of increasing and decreasing size, the flying sword's flight speed, maximum flight distance, attack method (physical or magical), attack strength, and pinpoint accuracy were also tested...

When it came time to test its close-range defensive effectiveness, Zhenyue finally couldn't hold on any longer:

[So tired, so tired! I have no strength left! Let me rest—find a ley line center so I can absorb some energy, otherwise I really can't fight anymore!]

"It's already exhausted... It seems this porcelain tower has low energy reserves and insufficient endurance." The naval officer accompanying the test quickly made a record and shook his head regretfully.

Shen Le remained calm, turned a page of the test book in her hand, and touched the porcelain tower in a gesture of reassurance:
"It's alright, it's alright. Let's skip the previous content and test a different project. Yun Kun!"

【exist!】

Yun Kun responded spiritedly. Shen Le took two steps back and patted the wooden wall of the foreground behind him:

"Your turn. Let's try connecting your energy circuit to Zhenyue and supply it with energy. Let's see how much it can receive and whether it can use this energy!"

No problem! I know this well!

Yun Kun answered proudly. Whether it's the compass, the scroll, or even when Li Xingtang stands at the bow of the ship, attacking on his sword, isn't he the one providing the energy?

There is an entire nuclear reactor in the center of the ship's cabin, which is converted into spiritual energy through a magic array. He, Yun Kun, can supply ten or eight companions, no doubt about it!

Shen Le felt a slight tremor beneath his feet, as if the deck was deforming, being reshaped, and pulling out a special pipe to connect with the tower base.

A moment later, the bottom of the porcelain tower also lit up slightly, and the thin glow spiraled upwards along the talismans, gradually illuminating the inner and outer walls of the porcelain tower layer by layer.

Inside the seven-story Zhenyue Pagoda, forty-nine porcelain swords hummed softly, as if letting out a comfortable sigh:

【ah……】

[Power supply successful!] Inside the cabin, a paper figure typed rapidly, while the loudspeaker at the forecourt entrance announced gleefully:

【It works!】

"Very good." Shen Le patted it again, encouragingly.

"Now we'll test the second sub-item of this project: maximum energy supply speed. Yun Kun, Zhen Yue, are you ready? Especially Zhen Yue, if you feel uncomfortable or feel that too much energy is coming in, be sure to say so!"

【Ready! 】

【How to say? 】

Ah, this… Shen Le looked left and right. Yun Kun was already eagerly saying:

Here's what I'll do: I'll give you a paper doll. You can talk to it, and it will type and convert the words to speech for you. If you can type yourself and want to type it yourself, that's also possible; I'll give you a paper doll to hold your notebook...

The newly spiritualized Zhenyue Tower hummed, clearly indicating its confusion about many aspects of this statement.

Seeing this, the teacher in charge of the lecture turned around, whispered a few words, and soon a naval soldier rushed over, carrying a shallow wooden tray filled with sand...

With a clang, a small sword flew out of the tower and landed on the sand table, its strokes flowing like dragons and snakes.

Great, the communication problem is basically solved now. As for the fact that naval officers and soldiers may not be able to understand traditional Chinese characters, and Zhen Yue may not be able to write English or certain symbols, these issues can be resolved gradually…

"Second sub-test, begin! Prepare to monitor energy flow, prepare to monitor the Zhenyue energy level, Yun Kun prepare to transfer energy!" Shen Le held the test book and read it aloud sentence by sentence:
"Three, two, one! Go!"

The sword light shone brightly.

(End of this chapter)