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Chapter 520: Chapter 520: Pioneering the Future

As for why the Ability Users are targeting this unknown factory in the outskirts and who might be directing them, Lin Qing currently has no capacity to concern herself with these matters.

"You better be careful. Maybe someone has already noticed this factory."

"That’s why I chose to place the main facility in such an inaccessible location," N959 said confidently. "Even if bombs were dropped above the plant, this place would remain unharmed."

Dropping bombs? Probably not... After all, this isn’t a conflict zone.

"Let’s get to business." Lin Qing took out a portable hard drive from her pocket. "Here, take it."

Another mechanical arm extended, deftly receiving the hard drive and promptly connecting the data cable.

"Let me take a look..." The eyes on the screen scanned left and right, seemingly "browsing" the hard drive. "Hmm, these appear to be design blueprints. Are these the products to be repaired next?"

"You could say that. You should be able to manage it, right?"

"Of course, as long as you provide corresponding samples like the prosthetic eye." It replied cheerfully.

"Prepare a workshop for me, with the necessary equipment and materials inside, and I’ll gradually inform you of what I need."

When Lin Qing said this, Liuli shook her head helplessly from the side.

"Are you planning to personally manufacture samples?" N959 was utterly surprised.

"Correct, this is considered a basic skill for a Future Warrior," she said without hesitation.

A stroke of luck amidst misfortune is that although the Ability Store has disappeared, it only took away the ability-related parts... Like the second and third floors and elevators of the otherworldly space, the store manager’s manual from the cabinet, the management app from the computer... In short, the store lost all extraordinary items and reverted back to a regular neighborhood shop. Whereas items unrelated to abilities were wholly preserved.

For example, the computer.

Once Lin Qing got to know Chen Xuan, she transferred a lot of information stored in the auxiliary thinking chip to the computer’s hard drive. Initially, she only transferred some intelligence about organizations, but later she simply used the computer as her backup database. When Chen Xuan decided to support Walter Company in combating the organization, she also copied the prosthetic materials over.

Now the store is gone, but none of those files are missing.

If given a prosthetic surgery room with complete facilities, she could independently dismantle and maintain prosthetic structures based on the schematics, much like how every past warrior knew how to disassemble and maintain their guns.

"Maintenance is maintenance, but production is altogether different," this was the warning Liuli gave before they set off, "Do you seriously think, with current technological levels, you can replicate a prosthetic from a century ahead? This thing has to connect with your nerves and flesh."

Lin Qing didn’t immediately respond to her at the time, but internally she had already repeatedly considered the feasibility.

Starting from scratch, it’s certainly infeasible. Just the micro-circuit chips installed in prosthetics exceed the specification limits of current electronics, and this couldn’t possibly be formed using just skillful hands and a couple of hammers.

But she had N959 as an ace up her sleeve.

While EONE is not the most advanced military prosthetic eye, at the very least it’s at the product level twenty years into the future. Its performance in second Paris was quite outstanding, not only repairing her mechanical arm but also adding some subtle improvements, making the prosthetic more like living limbs.

This suggests that the gap between eras can be narrowed or even erased by extraordinary items.

Furthermore, Lin Qing doesn’t need to manufacture a complete prosthetic.

Like this factory that doesn’t actually produce EONE but rather prosthetic eye samples that are unusable, only by N959’s repairs can they become qualified products.

According to this theory, samples can be split further. Can’t make circuit boards as miniaturized? No problem, she can make only a part of it, like the simpler interfaces, baseboards, or even enlarge them proportionally... After all, they’re defective products, and extraordinary items don’t care how defective they are.

With such a layered disassembly, each part of the prosthetic could eventually be restored. Of course, the difference between the final repaired product and the design model is entirely an unknown, and the risk Liuli mentioned stems from this.

The fabrication work quickly began.

N959 took only a day to clear out a small lab for her on the first floor of building A6. To ensure safety, it also dismissed all maintenance engineers, avoiding any outsider disturbances to Lin Qing.

Long Lan also proposed going to a hotel to rest during the first two days, but upon seeing Lin Qing indifferent, dropped the notion.

During this time, old Walter made a call once. His voice sounded weak, but his spirit was quite lively, reminiscent of someone recovering from a severe illness. Walter didn’t ask Lin Qing about her purpose here from start to end, just mentioned if she needed anything, she could instruct Long Lan, who would certainly do his utmost.

As for Liuli, she served as the strictest overseer of N959—Lin Qing knew that the other might not be whole-heartedly loyal to her, especially since losing all her prosthetics left her unable to threat Requiem by herself, and N21, Liuli was the ultimate assurance to ensure the plan could proceed smoothly.

...

"Here, I brought you lunch." Liuli placed the packed meal on the cluttered workbench.

"Thanks." Lin Qing stretched lazily, put down the drill in her hand, and opened the meal box cover—inside were various high-grade ingredients like tuna belly and snowflake beef chunks, along with some strange items whose names she couldn’t even call out. "The meals they provide are quite good."

"Imaginary." Liuli rolled her eyes at her. "If normally accommodated, you should now be residing in the top presidential suite of a hotel, enjoying fresh, delightful gourmet dishes rather than eating half-cold, half-warm boxed meals in a room devoid of sunlight."

Lin Qing nonchalantly stuffed a piece of richly fragrant fish belly into her mouth, "This is already pretty good, after all, we’re not here to experience VIP treatment."

"You don’t really need to take this risk." Liuli shrugged. "Just stay in Jiang City, with me, Elorie, and Honglian looking over you, it’s hard for anything to go wrong."

"To have three people watching over one person, even if you don’t say it, I’d feel like a waste myself." She first laughed at herself, then switched to a more serious expression, "Besides... I feel like doing this is destiny’s arrangement."

"Destiny?" Liuli was slightly startled.

"You once forgot about me, right?" Lin Qing asked softly.

"Did I?" The silver-haired swordsman touched his head, "I don’t quite remember."

"Chen Xuan told me. He said at the moment history altered, it was as if the whole world forgot me, except he still remembered." She put down her chopsticks, her voice so light it seemed like a murmur, "Until later, when he restored my memories and brought me back to Jiang City, everything returned to normal, as if I had never vanished. I was still the liaison for the organization, Walter remembered me, N959 remembered me too."

Liuli frowned, trying to recall this information but could only vaguely think of some blurred fragments.

"The ripple of reconstruction is just that subtle and quiet; maybe the past and future aren’t simply sequential but are always intertwined and parallel. The past can decide the future; the future can change the past." Lin Qing paused here. "Luckily, we don’t have to worry about such problems now because the Celestial Patrol announced that the history of this world line has been locked."

"Alright..." Liuli abandoned her thoughts, "Then what’s this got to do with what you said about destiny?"

"In a sense, Chen Xuan not only found me but also found a world for me." Her voice was soft, but her gaze incredibly firm. "If I’m merely a solitary visitor to this world, unable to do anything, then waiting indefinitely would be understandable. But the fact is that I’m not completely alone here; Chen Xuan returned the entire world to me, so I must use the power of this world to forge a future where I meet him again."

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