The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2748

Chapter 2748 - NuMan

As Ves and his wife continued to tour the Prescott Museum, he received an interesting message.

"Curious."

"What is it?" Gloriana asked as she stopped and turned around.

She let go of Clixie, who managed to remain aloft and avoid falling to her death with the help of her antigrav harness.

"Miaow!"

"I just received a message from Miles Tovar. We finally managed to hook a neural interface specialist."

That instantly aroused Gloriana’s interest.

"Really?! That’s great! Having a mech designer on our staff who has received MTA approval to study and design neural interfaces is a great addition to our Design Department. That was one of the major specialties that we have always lacked. Now that we have someone like that onboard, we have gained one of the requirements to design expert mechs. We can also fine tune the neural interfaces of our other mechs so that they facilitate better connections. This is perfect!"

Ves raised his palm. "Hold on for a moment. Don’t celebrate too quickly. Let me give you the mech designer’s record and interview transcript."

He transferred over the doc.u.ments to her comm so that she could skim through them in her mind with the help of her implant.

Her smile still held strong.

"I don’t see anything of concern, Ves. Mr. Arkan’s record looks clean enough. Even if he is a loyal citizen of the Telva Association, he hates his former employers, so it is unlikely that he will cling onto old loyalties once we bring him to the fold. His MTA certificate is still valid so he is authorized to develop new neural interface models without requiring any extra permissions. As long as his neural interfaces doesn’t result in mass casualties, his services are ours to keep!"

Ves became a little more strained. "Gloriana, don’t you see the problem here? Sure, Richard Arkan seems like a bright Apprentice who possesses a rare and valuable specialty, but did you hear what Miles had to say about the fellow?"

"Mr. Arkan sounds like an ambitious mech designer. He certainly dreams big. That is a trait that every successful mech designer possesses. I am sure he will make it far in his career. He kind of reminds me of you in that regard, hihi!"

Ves didn’t see what was funny about this situation. As far as he was concerned, the comparison to him made Arkan even less desirable in his eyes!

As someone who frequently engaged in risky experiments, Ves was more aware of the potential risks and dangers than anyone. While there were plenty of times when he engaged in radical experiments, he always tried to stay away from them unless the situation was too dire.

At other times, he tried his best to limit his impulses and adopt a slower approach. He developed plenty of crazy and risky ideas as time passed. That didn’t mean he should investigate them all. He was still capable of exercising restraint.

At least he thought so. He hadn’t killed himself so far, so he must be doing a good job, right?

Ves dealt with these kinds of temptations every day. It was frustrating for him to think up a good idea, only to put it in the freezer because he was too incompetent to explore it further.

Yet what about others? Would other mech designers like him be able to make the decision to shelve a dangerous idea because the risks were too great?

His trust in other people was relatively poor. He may trust himself to hold back from performing a ruinous experiment that was associated with too many risks, but that didn’t mean he was willing to give others the benefit of the doubt!

Perhaps some might argue that Ves should be more sympathetic towards a like-minded mech designer, but he was the opposite. He became more wary towards those who had the urge to engage in reckless experiments!

"There are too many warning signs in Mr. Arkan’s materials. I don’t think it is a good idea to bring such an unstable factor into our Design Department." He declared.

Just as he was about to transmit an instruction to strike the applicant off the list, Gloriana placed her palm on his shoulder.

"Don’t be so quick to throw this opportunity away. Haven’t you been looking to recruit a neural interface specialist for at least a year? Now that someone is at your doorstep, why are you thinking of chasing him away? You’re missing a golden opportunity here!"

"Gloriana..."

"He’s young. Well, young enough. He’s still an Apprentice. We can mold him, Ves. We can shape his methods and approach like we did to all of our Braves and Erudites. I’ll personally take him under my wing so that I can encourage him to slow down and be more thoughtful about his implementations."

Ves sighed and pushed her hand off his shoulder. "There is a limit to how much you can indoctrinate a mech designer. Even if Mr. Arkan is an Apprentice, it looks like he has already chosen his direction."

"We should try anyway. We can always reassign him if he turns out to be as you feared."

"I don’t want to take the risk."

"Then at least keep him on hold for the rest of the month!" Gloriana quickly suggested. "We have no idea if another neural interface specialist will apply to join our clan! We should keep our options open just in case Mr. Arkan is the only choice."

She made a good point. Even if Ves felt that taking in a personality like Mr. Arkan was troublesome, he did not want to rely on external consultants to solve his neural interface needs.

A neural interface designer introduced a lot of new possibilities to Ves. Out of his d.e.s.i.r.e to come away from the Life Research Association with at least one of these specialists in tow, he accepted his wife’s advice.

He transmitted a brief message back to Miles. The recruiters shouldn’t reject Mr. Arkan’s application, but they shouldn’t be in a hurry to complete the necessary checks and examinations either.

Gloriana grinned. "You’ve made the right choice. In order to design a more perfect mech, we need to move away from our dependence on standard MTA-provided neural interface models. Their potential is too limited in order to ensure maximum safety."

Technically, that wasn’t entirely true, but Ves didn’t need to share this little detail.

"Let’s just move on. There are still exhibits that we haven’t seen yet. I’ve been eying that human mech over there for a while now."

Upon his urging, they floated over to a mech that looked more human than many of the other machines they had viewed. They stopped next to an older dignified-looking man who was also studying the fleshy mech.

As they flew closer, Ves began to feel strangely uncomfortable in the presence of the biomech.

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