Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 39 39. I always feel like this process is a bit like déjà vu. What's going on?
After letting the two of them divide all the fried chicken, Sefer told them that he had accepted an escort order. The person on the other end was a doctor from a desert transformation agency with a very special identity.

Tien's reaction to this was unremarkable. She seemed a bit prejudiced against the Desert Climate Modification Agency, but not too much, and she said the most troublesome thing about escort missions was the target's temper.

If you encounter someone with a strange temper, you might even want to throw them into the desert and roast them.

As for the car body provided - it was obvious that the main purpose was not to help Cypher improve, but more directly, to make the doctor feel comfortable and easy to use in the car.

That's very generous.

After eating and drinking, Tien burped and said that the purchase of new vehicles and materials had been completed, and they would soon set off to return to the Edge Node City. He suggested that Seifer deal with any matters here as soon as possible.

Driving in a group is much safer than walking alone at night. Even if someone attacked you last time, you basically beat them away, didn't you?
The logic is good, but Sefer always suspects that this guy is planning to get mercenaries for free and go back to guard the edge node city.

After she left and Lin Shenxue wiped her greasy face and went to rest, Seifer looked at the plate with some leftovers and thought for a while.

The mobile base's engines and lighting were all turned off, and a huge tank rose from the ground. Cypher's real body, with incomprehensibly long hair that even dragged on the ground like a tapestry, jumped out of the tank.

Landing lightly on the ground, she blinked her light gray eyes, which were the same color as her hair, and took a piece of leftover food from the plate and put it in her mouth.

It accurately replicates the taste in memory, although it is not fried in the boiling hot oil of a pressure cooker, and lacks the essence of forcing the flavor into the chicken.

From a food perspective, this kind of morale-boosting food is 'not so healthy' but can make people happy, and that's its purpose.

After confirming that his craftsmanship was indeed fine, Seifer smiled with satisfaction, picked up the metal cup and poured himself some of this world's specialty beer.

As soon as she took a sip, the indescribable bitterness and the impact of the alcohol made her face change color, followed by a painful sensation on her tongue as if it were pricked by a needle.

She spat out everything in her mouth with a "wow" sound, and kept sticking out her tongue - something was wrong, could it be that this body couldn't stand hardship?!

Seifer sat cross-legged on the cold floor and his hair, feeling that this might become his weakness... But then he thought, it was just a little taboo about eating, what was there to worry about?
Anyway, just get into the jar and your condition will always be in the best condition.

So could it be that the original body is his golden finger?

He vaguely felt that his identity was not ordinary, but there was little information available so he could not investigate further. After thinking carefully for a few minutes, Sefer decided not to dwell on it anymore.

First, improve your own identity value, and then you can access higher-level messages.

Having made up her mind, she cleaned up the table and the garbage, then returned to the tank with satisfaction and sent out the No. 1 spare body (with skin).

The entire vehicle started up again, and Seifer, who had already changed into a spare body, sat in the main control position like an ordinary person, directing the vehicle and the borrowed trailer to go from the ring road to the designated location.

Come to think of it, I always come out in my true form when others are not around. I always feel like I am living more and more like uh... some kind of spirit animal that is repaying a favor.

Following the car in front of him slowly onto the road assigned to him, Seifer looked at the endless stream of cars outside the car, as well as the people heading to the brightly lit surrounding satellite cities, and felt inexplicably emotional.

In a sense, the consortium of companies that can maintain the operation of a city at this level is also a collection of geniuses.

Soon, the vehicle body arrived at the maintenance plant, which was completely different from the previous temporary modification area with only gantry cranes exposed outdoors and piles of containers.

A ring of lights surrounded the pristine white walls, echoing the light from the ceiling, giving the entire factory a majestic and tidy appearance. As the vehicle approached, one of the doors automatically retracted and expanded inward. The massive door seemed to be enough to accommodate even a medium-to-large vehicle, let alone a tractor-trailer like the Saifu.

For large or extra heavy objects, you need to use a different way to open the door.

It was the first time for Sefer to enter such a well-equipped factory, where workers were directing automatic equipment on various cranes and workstations to disassemble, repair and adjust the mobile base. Naturally, his heart was filled with curiosity and yearning.

As a technician in my previous life, I have a natural attraction to things related to technology.

"Hello, Red Crossbow... Ma'am, we've been notified that we'll be repairing our mobile base for you. Which modules do you plan to keep?"

The person who connected to the communication was an older man. He politely asked about Sefer's request and sent a change plan to the main control device in front of Sefer.

"Hmm... Don't change the main control room, but everything else is fine. Oh, and there's someone resting in the engine room, so please be careful."

"Okay, I understand. Your vehicle will be ready in four hours. Until then, you can move to the lounge to view it, or you can stay where you are. Don't worry, our modular modification technology will not affect you."

The other party was quite polite. After Sefer said he would wait in the car, he turned on the factory's internal TV so that Sefer could see the progress of the renovation.

As the alarm sounded, large cranes and other equipment used to move parts rose together.

The robotic arm quickly dismantled the light armor plate at the module connection point, and then extended a fixing frame to secure the entire vehicle; after the track structure was dismantled and the outer shell was separated from the vehicle body in several parts, the densely packed heat pipes on the lower layer were exposed.

Seifer looked up. After all the liquid in the pipelines was drained and collected, there was only a layer of structural cage and inner wall decorative panels inside and outside the main control cabin. After these were removed, the main control cabin was half-suspended in the air.

After the module locked in the maintenance room is disassembled, it can be easily taken away. The entire disassembly process is fast and heavy, but the collision sound is quite rare.

There are indeed some tricks to the industrial level.

Then the engine compartment under the main control room was exposed - only then did Sefer realize that it seemed that the engine had never been turned off since the disassembly began?
Several robotic arms precisely cut off and shut down the running engine, sending it to a conveyor belt prepared under the vehicle body for transfer. The main control cabin is now powered by internal circuits to maintain operation.

After searching on the screen for a long time, I found that Lin Shenxue and her small apartment block were cut out and placed next to the workbench.

I fall asleep after eating, and the food tastes sweet.

The main control cabin was slowly raised to a certain height. Seifer stood at the opening, listening to the continuous roar in the factory. He estimated the warning area projected on the ground by the other party and suddenly frowned.

With this size, it doesn't look like they are planning to build a small, fast-moving base for themselves. It seems more like they are planning to make it bigger and assemble it into a huge mobile base for the Japanese special forces?

Obviously, he lacked some necessary understanding about those people driving on the sand.

When I was in the Edge Node City before, those cars with long axes of dozens or hundreds of meters parked in the parking lot could only be considered small to medium-sized entry-level cars at best.

Even during the encounter, those guys drove to close range and deployed the transport vehicles of the combat units... those were really just armored transport vehicles.

The Crucible Node City will soon give those who are new to this world a little shock of sailing on sand - maybe?
(End of this chapter)