Chapter 509: Charcoal, The Real Super Mechanic (2/2)
”Yes, master!”
Charcoal twirled around his body as two of his arms transformed into two solder guns. Charcoal closed in onto a pile of broken METAL while brandishing the guns like an evil doctor would on his patients.
A wave of squeaking and clattering dins rose in the quiet night.
After Charcoal was upgraded, it had received useful add-on functions, many of which even Wang Tong had no idea that they existed. The only way to find out was to keep on testing Charcoal's functions.
Wang Tong had figured the repairing process down to an art. The soldiers were in charge of sorting the parts into different piles, he was in charge of diagnosing, and Charcoal was the one doing the actual ”repairing” work. There were over hundreds of heavy METAL suits, and it would take Wang Tong years to finish repairing all of them without Charcoal's help.
After having received instructions from Wang Tong, Charcoal's job was very easy…for a robot. However powerful Wang Tong was, he would never be as efficient as a robot when it came down to repetitive mechanical tasks.
It would take Charcoal two to five minutes to fix one heavy METAL. Time was of the essence, so Charcoal doubled down on his efficiency and deployed a few more arms to speed things up.
Although maintaining the soul energy web was draining on Wang Tong's sea of consciousness, he carried out the soul scan without any difficulties. Looking at heavy METAL being restored into their former glory one after another, Wang Tong's eyes glinted with dollar signs. After the repair, these heavy METAL suits were not exactly the same copy as the original, since many parts had been swapped. Even Wang Tong was not certain the exact level of each of the pieces, but he was confident that these refurbished items were much higher quality than the ones one would get on the black market.
Whenever a METAL suit was restored, Wang Tong's face bloomed like a flower. While he was waiting, he lamented about the financial difficulties that plagued the Battle Wolf. If not for the money he made from the loot they earned previously, Wang Tong would be hard pressed to find any funding for the moving expenses. The financial disaster Wang Tong inherited from Guan Dongyang spurred him to look at other ways to fund the band's activities. The Zerg's invasion and completely crushed the human's well-established credit system, and only material goods were exchanged instead of credits, with a few exceptions, such as the IOU notes from the major factions.
Wang Tong looked to the distant sky; dawn was about to break.
”Charcoal, hurry up. Only a couple left.”
”Yes!”
Charcoal picked up speed and finally finished up the final two METAL suits when the first ray of sunlight found Wang Tong's face.
”Good job! Take a rest now, Charcoal!”
Tan Bu and Duo Lun were the first to arrive at the training ground. Right when they were about to start training, they found a strange light coming from the storage room.
”What is that?”
”Let's go and take a look.”
When they arrived at the storage, they found Castro standing at the threshold while gawking at something inside. He was so engrossed in the view that he didn't even notice the two.
Castro pinched his cheek and mumbled, ”Am I dreaming?”
Tan Bu and Duo Lun were also shocked by the one hundred or so brand new METAL suits set neatly in a row on the storage shelf.
”They look so real! ”
”Kick me,” Castro said in a half asleep voice.
”Kom!”
”Balls! You want to kill me? It hurts…hurts? Haha… I am not dreaming!” Castro flailed his arms in the air like a madman and stormed through the gate.
”Be careful! Don't leave your fingerprints on them! They are for sale.”
”For sale? Why? We can use them for ourselves!” Castro complained.