The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2872

Chapter 2872: The Gem Cat Project

"MEEEEOOOOW!"

When Ves entered a storeroom, he immediately noticed the frenetic activity that took place.

He noticed that Lucky had been gorging himself on lots of exotics prior to his current predicament. The evidence was plain to see as Lucky ate his way through some reinforced lockers and took a bite out of every exotic within reach.

This was not normal!

While Ves knew about Lucky's penchant of phasing into storage areas in order to take a bite or two, the cat usually left no traces behind.

Frequent practice along with focused instruction from Calabast allowed Lucky to become the best infiltrator of the Larkinson Clan! He not only excelled at infiltrating enemy strongholds, but also excelled at sneaking into friendly areas as well!

Only Ves and possibly other spiritual entities were able to track Lucky's movements. No matter how well the mechanical cat could fool ordinary senses, he wasn't capable of dampening his spiritual signature.

These days, Lucky was allowed to do as he pleased. The Larkinson Clan had long reached a scale where many resources were no longer scarce in its eyes.

Certain strategic materials such as Breyer alloy, Unending alloy and resonating exotics were too precious to squander, but Lucky was smart enough to leave them alone. He instead gorged himself on more common materials used in the fabrication of expensive mechs.

Even though these meals didn't hold as much attraction as rarer exotics to Lucky, Ves and the rest of the clan didn't mind if some spillage occurred. They still had lots of materials left in their stores!

Ves suddenly realized that Lucky wasn't able to eat his usual snacks anymore.

Ever since they traveled to the surface and got stuck here, the gluttonous cat no longer had access to his usual buffet aboard the Spirit of Bentheim. While the Larkinsons still brought a large batch of raw materials to the surface, they were quite scarce to the ground forces.

Without these materials, it would become a lot harder to service the metallic mechs in the airfleet, including the incredibly powerful Piranha Prime!

Although the prime mech was clad in nigh-indestructible Unending alloy, much of the internals underneath the surface were still delicate. Indirect shocks, strong physical impacts and heat damage could still degrade the performance of Venerable Tusa's mech.

In short, Lucky's usual menu was off-limits this time!

Fortunately, there was still the local cuisine.

The biomech production facility that the Larkinsons took over was massive. Even though biomechs were grown rather than fabricated, the input materials were still similar enough to the materials used to fabricate regular mechs. In fact, there was significant overlap.

However, it appeared that Lucky hadn't limited himself to familiar materials. Ves could clearly see that the stores containing exotics that were exclusive to biomechs also featured prominent bite marks!

"Are you having a stomach ache because you ate the wrong kind of food?" Ves questioned.

"MEEEEOOOOW!"

He knew it! Whatever affliction Lucky suffered now was probably directly prompted by eating exotics that were mainly used in organic products. Some of the weirder exotics were actually organic in themselves!

"If you kept your hunger in check, you wouldn't have ended up in this situation, you know."

He had no sympathy for his cat. Even though Lucky was curling on the table like he was suffering from the biggest bellyache in the galaxy, Ves only thought that his naughty cat got what he deserved!

"Meeeeooow! Meeeeoow! MEEEOOOOW!"

In fact, rather than feeling sorry about the current circumstances, Ves grew happy instead. As Lucky started to scratch his lower body, it slowly became apparent that the gem cat would finally be ending his months-long production hiatus!

After stalling for such a long time, Lucky finally couldn't hold it in anymore. The suffering he must be going through was probably a sign that his output would definitely be bigger and stronger than anything that appeared out of his backside!

Ves strolled closer. "Do you need some assistance, buddy? I still have some B-stone shards. I saved them for just these kinds of occasions."

"MEOWWWW!"

"Okay, okay, I'll give you a chance to do it yourself. Don't take too long, though. If nothing happens after the day is over, Doctor Ves will treat your condition."

"MEOW!!!!!!!!!!!"

Just the mention of 'Doctor Ves' sent a shiver through Lucky's spine. After witnessing so many depraved experiments and being subjected to some of them himself, there was no way that he wanted to end up on the operating table yet again!

His pain, desperation and urgency caused him to focus on clearing his digestion as strongly as possible. The mere thought of becoming Ves' patient was enough to motivate him to work his hardest.

Ves continued to smile as he looked down on his mewling pet. The gem cat truly looked serious about ending his current state.

"Come on. You can do it. Just push!"

"Meeeooww... meeeeeooow.... MEEOOOOW!"

Several minutes passed by as Lucky continued to mewl in agony. Ves had no idea how a cat made out of mechanical components could even experience pain, but that was just one of many mysteries about his nature and his origins.

As Lucky struggled to fulfill his job as a gem cat, Ves wondered where products like Lucky even came from. He strongly suspected that there must be more gem cats in existence.

As a mech designer, Ves became good at judging whether he was looking at a product formed by nature or by a deliberate intelligence. In his judgement, there was no way that Lucky belonged to a naturally-evolved species.

The more he witnessed Lucky's wonders, the more he became convinced that someone designed the gem cat. This person was not only incredibly good at imagining a nigh-impossible product, but actually managed to realize it despite the tough requirements.

Even the MTA would find it difficult to make something analogous to a gem cat despite all of their extremely advanced technology!

"What's more, can they even make mechanical products alive?"

There were several aspects about Lucky's existence that were more mysterious in nature. His sentience and the esoteric effects of his gems were so far outside the boundaries of conventional science that his creator may possibly be a spiritual engineer!

He wasn't too sure about this conclusion, though. Multiple people may have worked on creating Lucky. A galaxy-class engineer may have designed and realized the gem cat's physical components while a spiritual engineer subsequently infused a copy with life.

Therefore, Ves could not say for certain whether Lucky was actually his product or not. His intuition did not lean in either direction. _{ƒгeewёbnovel.com}

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