Ninth class citizen

Chapter 170 You must have been deceived

Qingtianzhang looked at Nan Rong's overly young face, then looked at Gray Warrior's skeptical expression, and just found it ridiculous.

"Haha, hahahaha." He laughed so hard that he couldn't catch his breath: "You wouldn't really believe them, would you?"

The cash-strapped Gray Fighter actually has no other choice.

"It's none of your business whether you believe it or not," he asked unhappily.

"Hey, how come you don't know how to appreciate kindness?" Qingtian Zhang looked hurt: "I mean well, too."

"But I don't need it." Gray Warrior said, "They seem to be looking for you over there, go back quickly and don't disturb my maintenance engineer."

"Hehe." Qingtianzhang turned around angrily and saw someone waving at him in the maintenance dock next door.

I guess during the repair process, there is something that needs my final decision.

Watching the Gray Fighter's joke is just a small matter, your own mecha is the most important.

Qingtian Zhang turned around and left, and before leaving, he did not forget to throw a sentence: "Don't regret it if you don't listen to me!"

It is not a difficult task for Nan Rong to re-engraving a pattern.

What is a little troublesome is that before carving, the original remaining traces must be smoothed out to avoid interfering with the operation of the new pattern.

This is also a major difficulty in mecha repair. In most cases, even if the pattern is re-carved and then injected, it will still be disturbed by the original residual pattern.

Therefore, even for well-known mecha repairmen, the parts after re-inscription can often only achieve 60% to 70% of the effect of the original parts.

To completely restore it, you have to replace the parts with new ones.

And new parts often mean high prices.

Take Gray Fighter's F09 combat-specific micro-mech as an example. Its original price was 850 million Cowans. Replacing a new left knee joint conduction device would cost at least 60 Cowans.

Gray Warrior looked at Nan Rong's young face and didn't dare to hope for anything.

As long as she could complete the engraving of the pattern and connect the source energy circuit, she would be satisfied even if she could only achieve 30 to 40 percent of its functions due to the interference of the original incomplete pattern.

But in Nan Rong's eyes, this matter was not difficult at all.

The information that President Roland had given her before contained standard methods for dealing with the situation, and there was more than one.

The first method is to re-carve the pattern directly on the residual pattern.

This method is mainly suitable for situations where the original pattern attachment area can be completely restored to its original state after sheet metal processing, and it has extremely high requirements for the operator.

Because the pattern after blind engraving must be basically exactly the same as before, every stroke must be exactly the same as the previous residual pattern, so that the residual pattern and the new pattern can be integrated into one, which is almost impossible to achieve in the case of blind engraving.

So it basically only exists in theory, and no one actually adopts it in practice.

The second method is to use liquefiable insulating material to cover the remaining patterns by internal engraving before engraving new patterns, and then use superconducting materials to re-engraving.

This method is a little simpler than the previous one, but it is not something that most people can do.

Because the internal engraving method still has to be used, and whether it is covering the residual pattern or re-engraving, it must be formed in one go, otherwise the component will be completely scrapped.

Nan Rong didn't know that the common practice of other mecha repairmen was to simply ignore the original residual patterns and replace them with another superconducting material to re-carve them. Some even squeezed and reshaped the internal alloy to further destroy the remaining residual patterns to reduce their impact on the new patterns.

This approach works well in the early stages after repair, but as the years of use increase, the alloy fatigue gradually increases, problems will gradually become exposed, and it may even fail at a critical moment.

Nan Rong was going to adopt the second method introduced in the materials.

Although the club members tried their best, the left knee of the mecha was squeezed too hard. They could only restore the outer alloy armor to normal, but the inside was still twisted. The shape of the remaining pattern changed from round to elliptical, and the various line segments were not on the same plane.

Two holographic images have now appeared in Nan Rong's field of vision.

One was a broken and rugged old pattern, and the other was a new pattern that she was about to engrave.

This appeared automatically a few minutes ago after she had a slight thought.

Nan Rong was too lazy to reject Jelly Dumpling's advances.

Anyway, she has thought it through clearly. Before the other party reveals his true intentions, she will give in half-heartedly and make full use of the little monster.

"One part of second-order insulating material liquefied heat-resistant silicon, and two parts of second-order superconducting material blue star crystal gold liquid." Nan Rong roughly calculated the amount of materials needed and spoke.

"Why do we need insulating materials?" Roland and others came over, puzzled.

God's Hand suddenly remembered something and asked in surprise, "Are you planning to cover up the residual marks?"

After he said this, the remaining three people also remembered and their eyes widened.

"The inside of the component has been completely distorted, and it is difficult to locate the original residual patterns. No matter how strong your perception is, it is too difficult to operate blindly in this state - there is really no need to force yourself so much." President Bai said.

"Yeah." The vice president of the machine scratched his head. "We only charged a small amount of money. It's already very kind of us to help him re-inscribe it. There's no need to be meticulous. If we fail, we might even have to pay for it."

This is actually everyone’s true inner thought.

"I won't force it." Nan Rong said calmly, "I know what I'm doing. If I really fail, it's all my fault."

"That's definitely not possible." Roland said, "You are also helping the society make money. How can it be possible that if it succeeds, everyone will share it, and if it fails, only one person will bear the cost? Just go for it. If it doesn't work, we can just rebuild it - the money to buy materials is much cheaper than buying new parts."

Next to the alloy column in the center of the maintenance hall is the materials and accessories store.

There are all kinds of materials and accessories available, and the prices are very affordable.

Insulation materials are generally not used by many people. The vending robot spent a long time searching before replying to Qian Duoduo:

"Sorry, we're out of stock of the second-level liquefied heat-resistant silicon. The only insulating material we have left is the third-level black alum gum, which is 2300 Cowans each."

Qian Duoduo didn't understand these, so he ran back to ask for instructions.

Third-level black alum gum? It was the first time for other people in the society to hear about it, but Nan Rong, who had mastered millions of materials from various star regions, was familiar with its properties and uses.

"Yes," she said. "Use it to cover the original residual wrinkles. The effect is more stable and will not fall off even under high temperatures. It is expensive and has no other problems."

One portion of black alum gum and two portions of blue star crystal gold liquid cost a total of 4560 Cowans. Adding the cost of the materials needed for the previous repair, the cost of this order alone was close to 1 Cowans, leaving little profit for the society.

The prerequisite is that Nan Rong can succeed in one go.