The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2002

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Chapter 2002 Upgrading People

"Hihihi! Do you think Ves…"

"Oh, that must have been dreadful! Can you imagine…"

"...Genetic modification has gone too far!"

The gossip in the design lab sounded anything but amusing to Ves. His girlfriend simply couldn't keep her mouth shut to the female members of their design teams. It was as if they were back in high school instead of a professional setting!

Ves glowered more and more as Gloriana jubilantly referenced the 'adventure' they went through last night!

"Meow?"

Lucky curiously floated in front of his face.

"Hey, at least I got some action, unless you!"

"Meow!"

Right now, Ves stood outside the hatch leading into the design lab and workshop compartment. The reason why he paused here was because he wanted to find out whether Gloriana and the others in the fleet were truly gossiping about last night's 'adventure'.

He didn't listen in on the conversation in the design lab by patching into the monitoring system.

Instead, he resorted to a more covert means and extended his spiritual ear through the bulkheads.

What he found out did not amuse him the slightest!

He could understand it if other people gossiped about his love life. With how much his life was being scrutinized by everyone, it was hard to keep everything secret.

Yet for Gloriana to release teasing hints about his 'performance' made him feel extremely embarrassed! Didn't she have any shame?!

"Probably not." He sardonically muttered.

The only consolation was that his girlfriend sounded very satisfied. At least he made a good accounting for himself, if Gloriana was to be believed!

The moment Ves entered the design lab, all conversation stopped. Gloriana smiled at his appearance while the rest of his assistants and students adopted odd expressions.

It was hard not to maintain his composure amidst all of this intense scrutiny. Ves really wanted to bonk Gloriana's head for being too loose with her mouth!

"Ahem." Ves coughed. "We have a lot of work to do. What are you standing around for? We have two mech designs that need fleshing out!"

The assistant mech designers gradually returned to work after Ves handed out their daily assignments. There was a lot more work to do now they started work on designing the Hexer mech.

With the striker mech design project well underway, everyone had to deal with the stress of juggling two very different mech designs at the same time!

The striker mech design project wasn't all that challenging, actually. Its relative simplicity was only marred by the fact that Ves and Gloriana had very few ways to solve its fundamental capacity problems.

Aside from this sore point, the pair could pretty much design the mech to completion on autopilot. At their level of knowledge and experience, designing mass-market third-class mechs posed no significant challenge to them anymore.

Of course, if they wanted to excel in third-class mech design, they needed to put in a lot of work to surpass the greatest names in this sector.

That required a high mastery in third-class mechs as well as centuries of experience in designing them! Such an extreme level of accumulation was not something that a young pair of Journeyman Mech Designers could pick up in a few years or decades!

Ves could only work towards that height step-by-step as he focused on his own progression. He had already decided to shift his focus towards designing second-class mechs, so it was unlikely that he would be able to match the true specialists who spent centuries to polish their ability to design cheap and extremely cost-effective mechs!

After Ves inspected the coursework of the male Larkinson seeds, he finally managed to catch his girlfriend by herself.

"Gloriana." Ves said with gritted teeth.

"Yes, honey?"

Her brilliant smile and her refreshing scent made it hard for him to remain angry with her. He still felt she violated his privacy, though.

"Could you please not make our lives a spectacle? Our relationship is not a public drama show!"

"Oh, Ves." She approached him and embraced him in a heartfelt hug. "You don't have to be so shy. You 'men' like to brag, do you not?"

"Not all men are the same! And why does it sound strange when you say that word?!"

"That's not important." She pulled back and adopted a lecturing tone. "Look Ves, you're a public figure now. You are the owner and lead designer of the LMC as well as the patriarch of the Larkinson Clan. Do you know what that means?"

"No." Ves cluelessly replied.

"You're starting a new lineage, Ves! I've studied the history of my own dynasty as well as the other dynasties of the Hegemony, and each of them came into power when a successful Hexer managed to translate her momentary fortune into enduring strength! Even when the original founders passed on, their legacy lives on through the dynasties they founded!"

"What does this have to do with our relationship?"

She sighed. "You're not getting it. Aren't you the kind of leader who makes a lot of long-term plans and likes to prepare measures early so that they will bear fruit decades from now? This is exactly what I'm doing right now! I'm reassuring your fellow clansmen and dependents that we are working towards our continuity!"