Wang Tianwei's eyes were practically glued to the various high-end instruments.
No wonder Taihe Corporation was able to grow so big and strong!
What other company could be so generous? Willing to spend tens of millions of star coins just for a single coating!?
As the two walked further inside, the workshop Huang Yan had reserved was the innermost one. It was far from the exit but closest to the gravity testing field.
The moment she stepped through the door, Wang Tianwei's entire attention was captivated by the five-meter-long advanced operating console!
Like a creep, she ran both hands all the way across it.
"Wow!!! Sir Huang, can I sleep here!!?"
"Absolutely not."
Huang Yan did not hesitate for a single second.
He had long realized this fellow's deep love for workshops, but at the very least, Taihe couldn't have a fatality on its hands...
Wang Tianwei thought about it and gave up. Forget it, if she lived here every day, her parents and Wang Kaiyu would probably blow their tops.
She pulled her own miniature workbench out of her spatial button and placed it nearby. In comparison, hers looked like an absolute infant.
The workshop was huge, with over twenty square meters of space in the back dedicated to housing mechas and their components.
"I've booked this workshop for the entire summer vacation. You can come over every day.
I've also applied for access to all the testing equipment and fields. You can enter and use them with that badge I gave you."
"Godfather! From now on, you are my true godfather!!"
"..."
Before mentioning this to Huang Yan, she had been worrying about what to do if she accidentally collapsed their building while building a mecha at home.
Would the whole family have to sleep in the ruins?
But now, obviously, those concerns were gone! She even had the Federation's most advanced equipment and instruments to assist and test with!
It was just like a dream!
"From now on, I will go through fire and water for you without hesitation!! I will definitely make your command mecha as solid as a fortress! No one will be able to blast it open!"
"Shh..."
Faced with her martyr-like declaration, Huang Yan helplessly made a shushing gesture.
It was a bit too exaggerated... really...
After Wang Tianwei announced that she would be going to Taihe every day to build mechas, Wang Yi and Cheng Yin quickly realized that the voices on the Qilin forum calling their daughter the King of Overachievers were not exaggerating!
Other than the first day she came back when they saw her for over four hours, lately they could only catch a brief glimpse of Tianwei in the mornings and evenings!
Let alone going out for a vacation... she barely spent any time at home!
And it was visibly apparent that their daughter was becoming increasingly unkempt, yet her mental state was getting more and more hyped!
If they hadn't had that boy Wang Kaiyu follow and drop her off once, they would have thought she had gotten hooked on some bad substance...
But the outrageous part was that their son had originally planned to rest well for a few days, yet after taking that trip to Taihe, he also started leaving early and coming home late!
He claimed that seeing his sister working so hard made him want to start his training early too...
Weren't the young people nowadays pushing themselves a bit too hard?
"...I think I know how the students at Qilin feel now."
Wang Yi scrolled through his optical computer for a while, found it boring, sat up, and said to Cheng Yin next to him,
"This kind of intense competition isn't forced upon you. It's just that watching them work so hard... you feel terrible if you don't do something yourself!"
Cheng Yin also felt quite unaccustomed to it. Thinking of the bright gleam in their two children's eyes,
"...I'm going to the company to see if the nutrient solution formula can be optimized further."
"Then I'll go too..."
The two of them groggily got onto their aircraft, looked at each other, and could not help but laugh.
Out-competing her classmates at school, and now out-competing her parents at home?
"Let's make meat rolls for Tianwei tonight! She is perfectly suited to eat some 'rolls'."
"I'll set up the cooking robot."
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Huang Yan piloted the mecha Wang Tianwei had just modified, constantly braking hard and then accelerating again on the testing field.
"An anti-gravity engine was added to the soles, making hovering more stable without affecting combat power output! There are absolutely no problems driving on hazardous terrains!"
Wang Tianwei maximized the video frame, facing the mecha as she explained it to Bei Liu.
Wearing her custom-made observation glasses, Bei Liu could not help but praise as the data came out,
"Only you could think this far... applying flight cabin technology to a mecha."
"It's cheap! Cheap and effective, so why not use it!? How much does a gravity anchor cost? And how much is an anti-gravity engine!?
We absolutely cannot be restricted by the word 'mecha' and pay for those overpriced premium products!"
Bei Liu took off her glasses,
"Great job! Anti-gravity levitation offers a huge combat advantage in watery areas or uneven terrains like deserts!
It's just that in the past, we were too focused on the feeling of having our feet planted firmly on the ground...
Since that's the case, I suggest you design the feet into a blade shape. Not only will it increase lethality, but it will also reduce drag and friction with the ground..."
"But that would place too high a demand on the leg muscles, and if we encounter mountainous, undulating terrain..."
The two debated back and forth.
After his test drive, Huang Yan was also shocked!
He originally thought she would at most replace the low-grade materials on the B-plus structure and add a few more offensive weapons! Just doing that would comfortably upgrade the mecha to A-rank!
He never expected Wang Tianwei to almost completely scrap her original design and start over from scratch!
He could not help but feel even more anticipation for his own mecha...
"Mhm, then I'll modify mine like this first. As for Sir Huang's mecha, I plan to focus primarily on defense..."
Huang Yan silently walked over to listen in. Bei Liu raised one eyebrow high,
"His top priority is to add an automatic ejection pod first! Defense is naturally essential for a commander too. The one I made for Yi Shao used..."
The two were on a video call in the gravity testing field. Outside, the Taihe mecha masters who intentionally or unintentionally passed by could not hear a single word because of the soundproofing net!
However, their eyes were firmly locked onto Wang Tianwei's mecha.
Ever since that unconventional little girl with black and white hair arrived, they were reluctant to leave their workshops! They were terrified that their special skills or blueprints might be seen by others!
They also stopped showing off their newly crafted parts. Every day before leaving, they would gather all their notes and data and lock them up securely!
Everyone thought it was the eldest young master bringing his little girlfriend to see the world... they never imagined that the girl actually had real skills!
On her very first day, she extracted all the spiritual alloy metal from a Super B-rank mecha!
Later on, she had many ideas that veteran designers like them couldn't even fathom!
Take this anti-gravity engine, for instance. Because it was too cheap, no one had ever thought of adding it to an A-rank mecha!
Today, when the little girl was testing the data, someone took a peek. With all those densely packed functions and payload capacity... the energy utilization rate actually reached an astonishing 95 percent!!!
Once completed, it would definitely be a Super A-rank mecha!
And she was only a first-year student!
The head of the mecha design group even wanted to tell Huang Taihe that they absolutely had to keep this promising talent!!
"If that's the case... Sir Huang, you'll have to start training your legs just like me."
The three of them discussed for a long time. Having heard all the various benefits, Huang Yan found it truly difficult to make a choice, and finally could only nod his head in resignation.
"...Got it."
He had to train his physical fitness anyway, so what did it matter which part he trained?
Wang Tianwei nodded in satisfaction, and Bei Liu spoke up while resting her chin in her hand,
"I have packed and shipped the last few materials. Are you sure you don't need anything else?"
Wang Tianwei stowed the mech away.
"Yeah! This is plenty. If the materials are too advanced, they would be difficult for us to handle anyway."
Bei Liu's eyes held a teasing smile.
"This is a one-time offer, you know! Didn't your commander teach you to maximize your gains?"
Huang Yan remained completely unfazed by the joke. Having finally completed a modification, Wang Tianwei was in an exceptionally good mood.
"A good mech engineer only focuses on maximizing material efficiency!"
"Haha, do I really need a kid to teach me that? By the way, we have a mission in a couple of days. You probably won't be able to reach me or Yi Shao, so just leave a message if you need more materials. Since you are at the Taihe workshop, make sure to run plenty of tests once it is done!"
Bei Liu kept the details vague, but Wang Tianwei caught her drift.
"Got it! Once my mech is fully completed, I will send you the data and the footage! Stay safe out there."
"Will do."
