Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 138 "Forging Iron"

Unlike the relocation outside, the machine shop still remains intact and is fully equipped with all kinds of equipment - of course, due to Tabitha's personal habits, this place looks even messier than the outside.

"When your original monomolecular knife broke, you asked to get a new one. I kept this one just for you."

Tabitha tied her long hair into a casual knot, put it behind her head, and walked into the workshop with Song Shi.

On the long table in the middle of the workshop, amidst a pile of miscellaneous items, there were several boxes of different sizes.

Tabitha opened one of them at random, and inside the box lay a nearly two-meter-long rectangular piece of metal material.

"RT-12 special steel, absolutely great stuff, I spent a lot of effort to get it." Rubbing the metal, the woman said proudly, "It has high corrosion resistance and strength, especially toughness and metal fatigue limit. Your original standard steel crow was already pretty good, but this is much better than that."

"Let me put it this way. As long as the output is high enough, you can use it to chop down tanks."

Song Shi also put his hand on the metal, felt it carefully, and nodded: "It's really good. How much did it cost?"

“What’s money?” Tabitha says, with a wave of her hand. “Don’t worry about it. Just spend it.”

"And to be honest, although this thing has several excellent performance data, they are all for cold weapons. It is not suitable for use in exoskeleton armor, prosthetics, weapon parts, etc. - these days, how many people still use cold weapons? So the price is not bad."

Strictly speaking, due to the highly developed implant technology, the concept of "cold weapons", which should have disappeared in the long river of history, has reappeared.

Because of the cybernetic nature, it is difficult to kill with one shot with ordinary firearms. However, in complex and narrow environments such as steel-structured buildings, factories, and alleys, cold weapons are more useful and are silent and concealed.

This is also the reason why most gang members on the street carry a cold weapon with them. A cheap single-molecule knife, alloy bat, hammer, or large wrench can at least smash the brain, bleed profusely, and kill someone.

As for the larger, more extensive, high-intensity battlefields where heavy armaments are lifted and long-range firepower groups provide support, cold weapons will be withdrawn again - or, in other words, pure "cold weapons" will disappear.

Add a thermal blade module to the long sword, and after it is connected to the prosthesis to receive energy, it can cut through the armor plate with one knife, just like a high-temperature welding torch. The chain sword and impact axe are also classic weapons, used to charge into battle and are also good at blowing up human bodies.

There are also things like electric halberds and plasma lightsabers. In the company's weapon store, they are divided into nationalities according to the latest discounts. If there are discounts on cold weapons, then they are energy weapons, and if there are discounts on energy weapons, then they are cold weapons.

Furthermore, there are "high-frequency weapons", which are the weapons of the senior executive in the basement of the First Research Institute. They can use high-frequency vibrations to quickly destroy non-homogeneous material armor and break through all kinds of conventional hard armor.

But without exception, few people would use pure cold weapons anymore.

"—you're right, but you forgot about the psykers."

Song Shi raised an objection, and he said sternly: "For psychics, cold weapons are better."

"Are you sure?" Tabitha obviously disagreed with this statement: "Look, Twinklestar and Sparroweye don't need it, and I've also seen some combat videos involving psychics, and they also mainly use guns."

“So they were wrong.”

Song Shi said without hesitation, but after a pause, he added: "Well, it's not completely wrong. For low-level psychics, guns and prosthetics are indeed more useful. But when two truly powerful psychics fight, the winner will ultimately be decided by what they have in their hands."

"You can think of this as a kind of inherited custom."

“I doubt it,” Tabitha says, before she considers it.

However, the two did not spend too much time on this topic. The most important thing at the moment was to rebuild a weapon.

Song Shi walked to the workbench and took out all the contents of the boxes, including the RT-12 special steel.

Just then, Tabitha handed over something.

Song Shi turned around and found it was a hammer. He was a little surprised: "What is this for?" Seeing this, Tabitha was also stunned.

"Don't you need it?"

"Hmm?" Song Shi was puzzled: "What should I use this for?"

Tabitha was shocked. "Didn't you say that the flame of forging is the embodiment of the image of 'forging'? Well, then isn't it the same as forging weapons?"

Song Shi put one hand on something at his side, and the "Flame of Forging" quickly spread and poured in to strengthen it. He pulled the operating lever and confirmed that there was no problem with the startup before looking at the other party with a puzzled look on his face.

"Why would I use a hammer to hammer something when there are more accurate and convenient machine tools?" He said in a strange and subtle tone, "Besides, I don't know how to forge iron at all."

As a freelance bounty hunter, fighting in an environment with scarce resources is a required course.

He can assemble simple firearms and maintenance equipment from discarded parts in a garbage dump, and he can also survive in the wilderness without carrying any supplies.

But he had never learned the technique of "blacksmithing" - because it was never used in the past.

"Aren't you a psychic?!"

Song Shi couldn't understand it even more: "Does a psychic have to be able to forge iron?"

"You are not a psychic idealist who is unreasonable." Tabitha seemed to want to say something, but after uttering a few words intermittently, she took a deep breath, started the cutting machine next to her, and gritted her teeth and said, "--Work!"

So, the two of them started to work.

The first step is cutting and shaping, carving out a specific rough outline of the RT-12 special steel. Song Shi had previously provided the design drawing, a sword with a nearly straight blade, slightly curved, and about one and a half meters long.

Then comes quenching and coating. The former allows the rough blank to cool, and the latter is Tabitha who also purchases some other materials to carry out composite reinforcement of the long sword and reconstruct a three-layer single-molecular cutting edge - this step is completed by Tabitha.

Song Shi slowly calmed his breathing.

At this moment, he was holding a transparent, thumb-sized transistor, inside of which was an irregularly shaped prismatic crystal. In a vacuum environment, the crystal emitted a faint white light.

——【Zero Element Crystal】.

What Harold obtained specifically for Song Shi as the commander of the Enlightened Ones was the key to transforming "weapons" into "psychic weapons".

As Tabitha retreated, Song Shi picked up a sharp carving knife with his right hand and crushed the transistor with his left hand. A red-gold flame suddenly burst out, engulfing the bursting zero-element crystal. Then, the flame flowed into the tip of the carving knife, turning into a red-gold embellishment.

Simply breaking up the zero-element crystals and mixing them into weapons can also allow them to carry spiritual energy, but this is too rough.

Song Shi turned the carving knife over and cut his wrist. Under his gaze, a large amount of boiling blood gushed out and poured onto the long knife.

In the next moment, the carving knife moved rapidly along the blade in the flowing blood, outlining solemn and complex patterns.

Technology from the Vampsta Empire, a so-called alchemical structure that can improve a weapon's adaptability and carrying capacity to psychic energy.

When it was all over, it was already midnight.

"Well... it's done."

(End of this chapter)