Why would I join the army if I can’t drive a Gundam!

Chapter 7 Life Gap
When Macharius rushed to the garage, his team members were chatting about family matters while working hard. Maintaining the tank is not an easy job, especially when there are so many convenient tools. However, the academy stipulates that during training, tank maintenance must be handled according to field conditions. In other words, everyone switched to manual operation and swung sledgehammers with their bare chests to show off their good physique!
"I guess I came at the wrong time? Everyone's busy. I won't bother you anymore. I'm going to go get some ice cream!"

Seeing that his car was being maintained by others, Macharius stopped immediately when he arrived at the garage and planned to turn around and run!
"No, you came just in time!"

The team members who reacted quickly closed the garage door, and then several people rushed forward and restrained him tightly. Youdin also stuffed him with a pair of brand new work gloves.

So, he had no choice but to take off his armored soldier jacket and join in. The reason for taking off the jacket was that this jacket was not issued by the government, but a high-end model that he had customized privately. If it got dirty, there would be no way to deal with it.

Generally, after a tank is put into storage, the first thing to do is to clean the loose soil and dust outside the tank. If this dust is not cleaned in time, it will gradually accumulate in places such as the engine air intake, causing blockage in its operation and easily leading to stalling and other conditions, so it must be cleaned in time.

Not to mention that Macharius' own Red Dragon No. 1 was located at the turret. Originally, there was a very domineering red flaming dragon, but at this moment, the dragon had turned into a yellow dragon, and one of the dragon's claws had lost its paint due to friction with stones or something else. Therefore, before repairing the car, the car had to be washed clean!
"Youdin, give me the water gun first!"

This giant dragon is his carefully designed personal identity symbol. Whenever he goes out, he will definitely get people turning their heads to look at it. Normally, Macharius treasures it very much and won't allow others to touch it. Now that he sees that it has become dirty and the paint has peeled, he wants to fix it immediately.

After taking the water gun, Macharius aimed it at the vehicle body and pressed the switch. Then, the high-pressure water gun in his arms sprayed out a powerful and spectacular water dragon, which hit the armor fiercely. After the water came into contact with the armor plate, it quickly exploded and squeezed in all directions. Then, the originally clear water turned into yellow-brown mud, and began to flow down along the armor plate.

It is extremely difficult to wash the huge body of the Type 61 tank, especially the fine sand and gravel that are stained during the march. These tiny stains are like oil stains, attached to the armor, and cannot be washed away by just washing it casually. It has to be washed repeatedly several times, and even if necessary, it has to be brushed off little by little with a brush to completely remove them.

After extremely hard work, the originally disheveled and yellow tank finally revealed its original lead-gray appearance, and even the personal logo on the tank became vivid. However, this is still just the beginning, because after cleaning the outside of the vehicle, they still have to deal with the inside of the vehicle. After cleaning inside and out, everyone can disassemble the equipment to inspect the circuit and diagnose faults!

Of course, it is not impossible to let the maintenance squad handle this kind of work, but a crew that cannot repair tanks is not a qualified crew, and the maintenance squad uncles cannot be with you around the clock, so the trainees have to do it themselves. Of course, if there is something that the trainees don’t understand, then it is up to the maintenance uncles to take action!

Macharius himself was also very familiar with the brothers in the maintenance class, because when they first entered the school, they often played together, mainly the brothers in the maintenance class chasing behind with wrenches in hand, and Macharius running in front with a tank soldier's helmet. He was still very young at that time, and liked to imitate someone who always drove at triple speed, but because his driving skills were not very good, he would often ask the maintenance uncles to stay up late and work overtime just to fix the tanks he damaged. It was only because his grandfather still had some energy, otherwise, he might not wait until graduation and would be kicked out of the academy!
But now, as he has evolved into a qualified veteran driver who can skillfully make the engine cooperate with his actions, the mechanics have a much better impression of him.

Repairing circuits and components is an absolutely massive undertaking, impossible with the human body alone. A crane is required to remove the tank's power pack and other components for a thorough inspection. If there's a problem or a small stone has lodged, the power pack must be disassembled and repaired piece by piece, like a butcher butchering an ox. This kind of work is time-consuming, laborious, and incredibly unpleasant. If you displease the Machine Spirit, you might end up getting sprayed with oil. So, while inspecting the power pack, he took Andre's hidden cigarette stash from the second tank, removed three of them, and offered them to the tank's Machine Spirit, which he didn't know existed.

"The head isn't even Asian, so why is he so religious?"

Feeling sorry for the cigarettes, Andre couldn't help but secretly take back the tribute from the Machine Soul and share it with the driver of car number three who was standing next to him and looking for an opportunity to slack off.

"When it comes to the matter of the machine spirit, I think we should be more pious. Our lives are connected to this big guy!" After the driver of car number three took the cigarette, he first shook it in front of his own car, as if he was inviting the latter to smell it, and then put it in his mouth.

"Then shall I bow too?"

Andre had just stood up when suddenly, a figure flew out from behind him. The latter flew high with one leg stretched very straight and the other leg bent downwards, looking like the Chinese character "夕". The figure flew directly out from the tank and pounced out with incredible speed.

"Holy crap, the machine spirit showed up?"

The driver of car number three was startled, after all, the shadow was too fast, but when Andre himself was kicked down, he saw clearly that it was his captain.

"Boss, you?"

After seeing Macharius's appearance at this moment, the two were also stunned, because most of the latter's face had turned black, all covered with black engine oil.

"Wait, what's going on?"

"This may be because the machine spirit is unhappy!"

Yudin, who witnessed the whole process, tried to hold back his laughter.

"As soon as you took the cigarette away, you got sprayed all over your head!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone couldn't help laughing. Of course, everyone then very honestly offered tribute to their cars one by one. After all, no one had their face sprayed with engine oil. It was difficult to clean that stuff off once it got on the body, and even if you washed it off with great effort, there would still be a very obvious smell on the body, which would take at least a long time to dissipate.

(End of this chapter)