Chapter 147: Robot Blueprint (Seeking Monthly Tickets!)

“From the system’s self-check, the faults are mainly concentrated in the drive modules of the ascension track. These faults are usually resolved as basic maintenance and aren’t complicated. But the problem now is that there are too many fault points, and they are all within the safety protocols, so the system was forced to shut down. We don’t have enough manpower, and we need to climb to the high-altitude areas of the elevator to solve them, which is quite time-consuming.”

On the vehicle, Wei Kexue, amidst the loud gunfire, continuously explained to Lin Xian, “The engineers sent by the Silver Star can help with some things, but it’s mostly engineering repair issues. Those maintenance areas are usually handled by a large number of maintenance robots. Relying on humans alone is not fast enough.”

“Then why not activate the maintenance robots?” KIKI asked.

Wei Kexue waved his hand. “When we arrived here a few days ago, most of the maintenance robots were still usable. But just yesterday, after the Iron Guard encountered that atmospheric mica at Daluo Mountain, it seems they were hit by some kind of ionization pulse, which caused the core control boards of these maintenance robots to burn out…”

Lin Xian frowned. “So the other ascension channels aren’t open not just because of insufficient power, but because most of the airport’s main control programs have malfunctioned, right?”

Wei Kexue’s expression was a bit grim. He nodded and said, “We have already urgently requested headquarters to dispatch a batch of maintenance robots to support us, but time-wise… it’s too late.”

“It’s lucky that those few electromagnetic railguns survived, otherwise we would have almost no air defense.”

“At that time, the zombie siege wasn’t as severe as it is now. Those zombies and anomalies basically didn’t actively attack the airport. The defense mechanism was fully activated only after the Iron Guard retreated to the airport.”

At this moment, the shuttle bus passed through the airport platform and began to enter the vast interior of the ascension elevator’s sky pillar. Instantly, the light and shadow before them changed, and a huge, magnificent super-engineering project appeared in Lin Xian’s vision.

Deep inside, transport channels extended upwards. There was an extremely large black platform where all trains or vehicles entering the sequence would be prepared. Then, these vehicles would be accelerated in three stages, launched almost like a catapult along the ascension channel up to a vertical height of 4800 meters, entering the high-altitude corridor above the snowy mountains of the Dazhu Plateau. In the huge corridor pipes, they would be electromagnetically accelerated to a speed of 1000 km/h. At a speed close to that of a commercial airliner, it would take less than 5 hours to transport tens of thousands of tons of cargo across the plateau to Jiazhou City, 4500 kilometers away!

“Engineer Wei, take me to see those maintenance robots.”

Lin Xian said.

It was obviously unrealistic to try to completely repair the entire ascension elevator. Its massive scale was comparable to a small city. Trying to cover it with the Mechanical Heart and repair it was something Lin Xian couldn’t do even if he worked himself to death.

What he could help with now was, at best, manufacturing some key components if he had the blueprints.

However, from what Wei Kexue said, this wasn’t a problem of one or two components. But if he could fix these maintenance robots, the problem would be solved much faster.

Wei Kexue looked up at him, said nothing, and nodded quickly. “I understand.”

The shuttle bus quickly drove into a large maintenance area. Under the dim yellow lights, many transport chains and hoisting platforms appeared.

Wei Kexue operated the computer system and turned on the lights in a designated area. At this moment, the lights in front of them lit up, and rows of small yellow maintenance robots appeared on the ground.

“These are PX-05 engineering robots specifically for ascension elevator maintenance. They are usually managed directly by the airport’s self-check system hub. After the malfunction occurred, a few colleagues and I tried to repair a few but failed. There were originally a few spare ones in the maintenance warehouse, but they were all taken by that Federation investigation team to repair their airship before this.”

“It’s that Federation investigation team again. Why haven’t they left yet? They’re just causing trouble for us,” KIKI said irritably upon hearing this.

Wei Kexue said helplessly, “Although we belong to different factions now, the Phoenix Society’s first priority is still to help more survivors survive, so we can’t directly conflict with them. If all the people on Blue Star die, then our resistance will be meaningless.”

Lin Xian said nothing. He walked over directly, placed his hand on an engineering robot, and began to activate the mechanical scan.

[Scanning, progress 15%]

[Scanning progress 50%]

This factory robot used a small Hall-effect thruster with an anode layer for high-precision levitation work. Lin Xian could tell from the scanning progress alone that its precision was not low. However, he also had an unexpected gain: the robot’s overall structure was not missing. It wasn’t like the Iron Guard 3 military mech from before, which had its core damaged and missing, leaving only an empty shell that was useless except for devouring. Moreover, devouring such things was not much more efficient than devouring a complete machine.

Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, Lin Xian would prioritize intact, operable machinery. The efficiency was highest, and he could obtain a complete blueprint.

After about 20 minutes, Lin Xian finally completed the entire scan.

[Scan complete. PX-05 Engineering Robot Blueprint obtained.]

[Partial circuit burnout detected on the main control board. Repair?]

Repair!

Seeing the prompt before him, Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief. He had finally obtained a complete robot blueprint. From the materials, it wasn’t complicated, just that it would be a bit slow to manufacture with his current Mechanical Manufacturing level. But with this, he could completely manufacture a batch of maintenance robots for the train’s maintenance and repair later on.

He could even install machine guns or grenade launchers on this thing and use it as a combat robot…

*Buzz, buzz, buzz!*

A blue light flickered in Lin Xian’s hand. The minute circuit problems inside the machine were a nightmare for ordinary people to troubleshoot, but for his Mechanical Heart, repairing them was as easy as turning his hand.

*Beep~ ‘Program initiated.’*

A fluorescent light lit up on the PX-05 engineering robot’s main control panel. A very low electric motor sound was heard. The thrusters on the robot lit up with a faint blue light, and then it slowly ascended.

“Wow, it’s really fixed!!”

Wei Kexue lifted his glasses, his face full of astonishment. He quickly lowered his head to check the system. Sure enough, an engineering robot with a serial number showed as online in the system.

Lin Xian nodded. “The first one will be a bit slower. I’ll start fixing all of them here now.”

“That’s great!”

Wei Kexue’s eyes were now full of admiration. For a mechanical engineer, Lin Xian’s ability was comparable to a deus ex machina. With this ability, what was the point of learning “Control Systems Engineering,” “Mechanical Manufacturing and Equipment,” “CAO and Mechanical Components,” “Material Forming Technology,” and “Engineering Materials and Applications”???

He really wanted to ask Lin Xian to be his master at this moment, but he felt it was inappropriate. Then he thought that this ability probably couldn’t be taught, and he regained some of his rationality.

“Okay, then I’ll arrange for maintenance immediately. If we have 20 operational units, I estimate we can complete the repairs in less than an hour.”

Lin Xian nodded and, without wasting any more words, directly began to repair the next one.