The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3579

Chapter 3579 Naughty Mech

When Ves arrived at his workshop, he discovered that someone had already arrived ahead of him. His wife was already looking up at the Enlightened Warrior with a scrutinizing gaze.

"Guuu.. waawaabuubuaawaa!"

Of course, Gloriana had also brought their baby along. Aurelia babbled senses as she tried to reach out at the friendly light blue-coated mech. Compared to everything else she had seen in her brief life, the Enlightened Warrior looked a lot different due to its color scheme!

"Meow."

"Miaow."

The two cats had followed after Gloriana and the baby as well. Right now, the two of them had jumped on top of a work table and pressed down their bottoms in anticipation of a good show.

Gloriana turned and glowered at Ves. "Look at what you've done. Are you proud of yourself? Your solo project nearly got us all in trouble! If I was involved in this project, you would have never made so many mistakes!"

"Hey, my project is sound! I did the best I could and I took every reasonable precaution! Accidents happen, okay?! With a mech design as experimental as the Enlightened Warrior, it performed quite well up until the last moment. I admit that I should have implemented more precautions to prevent the situation from developing up to this point, but everything eventually turned out okay! I pulled the plug before anything truly awful happened."

"And what if you did it too late? What if you misjudged the timing? What if the runaway reaction already did its damage before you realized that something was wrong? Did you ever think about those possible scenarios or were you so confident that your brilliant but risky scheme would somehow work exactly like the way you envisioned? Did you stop implementing more safeguards because you wanted to rush your variant design to completion just in time for our clan to sell copies of the mech to the local mech market? WELL YOU SHOULD HAVE INVOLVED ME AS WELL! WITH TWO MECH DESIGNERS WORKING ON THIS PROJECT AT ONCE, WE COULD GET DOUBLE OF THE WORK DONE! IF I WAS IN CHARGE HERE, I WOULD HAVE NEVER LET YOU COMPLETE YOUR DESIGN IN SUCH A ROUGH STATE!"

"HEY, DON'T BLOW THIS SITUATION OUT OF PROPORTION! MY EXPERIMENT WENT AWRY, BUT THAT TENDS TO HAPPEN WHEN ANYONE TESTS OUT NEW STUFF! YOU'RE HAMMERING ME WAY TOO MUCH, GLORIANA! PLEASE STOP COMPLAINING AFTER THE FACT BECAUSE I AM HEARING NOTHING FROM YOU THAT WILL ACTUALLY FIX THE PROBLEM!"

Gloriana snarled at Ves. "Don't yell at me! Has your mother not taught you how to behave around our kids? Think of our daughter! Aurelia will cry if you keep being aggressive. Just look!"

She presented Aurelia forward, much to the baby's surprise.

"Whua!? Hihihihi! Wuuu… babaaabaaaa…"

"Uhm, honey, Aurelia looks pretty happy right now. Look! She's giggling! She's so cute!"

His wife quickly pulled back the baby and pretended that nothing had happened.

"Ahem, in any case, let us stop arguing about the causes of this incident and look towards fixing it. Do you have any ideas, Ves?"

He directed an impatient look at her. "Despite what happened, the Enlightened Warrior is still a mech of my own design. I need to fix my problems in order to learn from this incident and do better next time. Now, will you get out of the way and stop distracting me from performing a proper examination of my mech?"

Gloriana made a disgusting sound before she turned her head towards Aurelia. "Did you hear that, Aurelia? Your daddy thinks he knows better even though he got himself in this mess in the first place. The nerve of him! The patients are running the madhouse!"

Ves quickly brushed past his complaining wife and approached the Enlightened Warrior to study its current state.

He first performed a basic technical examination. He paid special attention to the operating system, the data processors and most importantly the neural interface.

None of them showed any signs of tampering and all of the logs indicated that they were working as intended. Any mutation that occurred during the testing session did not originate from the hardware of the mech.

"Well, that rules out a lot of unlikely possibilities."

Even though he didn't think there was anything wrong with the physical state of the mech, he had to confirm it for himself before he narrowed his sights to the more probable causes.

Seeing that the nature of the problem likely involved the spiritual side of the Enlightened Warrior, he carefully touched the surface of the mech and closed his eyes in order to pour his full concentration in the mech.

He first tried to get a deep impression of the character of the mech.

Contrary to his initial thoughts, the Enlightened Warrior did not feel as if it had been tampered or warped by the Quint. The mech was still relatively close to its initial state. It was for all intents and purposes an innocent mech who didn't know what it had done wrong.

"Hey, it's okay. I'm just checking with you. Can you tell me what happened back then?"

The mech was still new and very underdeveloped. Even if it was a second-order mech, its extremely short existence and lack of interaction with its mech pilot meant that it was still lacking in too many areas.

Ves wasn't able to get any clear or coherent answers out of the living mech. He only knew that the Enlightened Warrior pretty much let the Quint run the show and that it had activated its transcendence glow at the maximum possible setting, which Ves had set at 50 percent of the glow of the Aspect of Transcendence.

This should have been a risky but still rather safe setting. According to his theories, the transcendence glow at half strength should have only made Jessica Quentin stressed or agitated at most. It was not supposed to give her a highly realistic simulation of what it was like to stand a few steps away from that living statue!

"I'm missing something here." Ves frowned. "Quint! Tell me what you did!"

I MERELY DID WHAT YOU INTENDED TO, CREATOR. I GAVE PILOT JESSICA QUENTIN WHAT SHE WANTED AND NEEDED. SHE ASKED FOR GUIDANCE. I GAVE IT TO HER. SHE ASKED FOR POWER. I INTRODUCED HER TO IT. SHE WAS WILLING TO DIE FOR HER FREEDOM. I PROVIDED HER WITH A CHANCE. WHETHER SHE LIVED OR DIED IS UP TO HER. IF SHE WANTED IT BAD ENOUGH, THEN SHE WOULD HAVE PASSED THE TEST.

"You…"

Ves banged the forward console with his fist! "You goddamn mulehead! Didn't you listen to anything I said!? I get why you are so eager to prove your effectiveness, but you pushed it way too far! Humans aren't as durable as mechs! Jessica Quentin isn't as ready as Joshua or Casella! Despite all of her implants and fancy training, her spirituality was still undeveloped. You can't just pump it full of air like a balloon and expect it to remain intact! Have you seen her state!? It was all cracked and only a short distance away from bursting!" _{ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom}

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