The Mech Touch novel Chapter 6645

Chapter 6645 The Heresy Spreads

Days passed since that fateful meeting with Radagast.

While the mysterious broker left the planet in order to deliver his other batches of Auto Heretics to other groups, Barrow and Idni returned straight to the NMRI with their new Carmine mechs.

They not only brought along their personal Carmine mechs, but also transported an additional 8 Auto Heretics that were ready to bond with any willing norm.

Suffice to say, each and every executive that received an exclusive offer from Barrow and Idni agreed to form a lifelong pact with a mech that they would have looked down upon in normal cases.

Just like everyone else who formed a Blood Pact with an Auto Heretic, they did not care about its lackluster performance or the many limitations of the Carmine System.

They already got sold from the moment they heard that they could control the mech through an experience that resembled the use of a neural interface, but conveniently omitted the excessively high wear and tear on the brain!

"This is impossible!"

"How can you control a mech with your brain when there is no direct interface?"

"Is this the power of a Class IX design philosophy?"

Although the leading members of the NMRI all reacted with shock and confusion at the bizarre qualities of the Auto Heretic, that did not stop them from praising how well it substituted the function of the neural interface!

If not for the extremely inconvenient rule that they could only form a single Blood Pact with a single Carmine mech, they would have definitely regarded the Carmine System ast the most perfect invention in the history of mech development!

Once the 8 remaining Carmine mechs found their new owners, Barrow and Idni subsequently called every member who was present at the NMRI facility for a general meeting and introduced the Auto Heretic.

The reactions from the hundreds of researchers and other personnel were initially skeptical, but that soon changed when all 10 leading members of the NRMI hopped into the cockpits and piloted their Carmine mechs as a demonstration!

Even though this display could easily be faked by turning the so-called Carmine mechs into battle bots, people's trust in their leaders was too high.

There was no way that ardent mech enthusiasts like Treasurer Barrow Rakovshchik would try to deceive them all like this! At most, the Carmine System may indeed be able to deliver on its astonishing promises, but do so at an unimaginably high price. Nobody really paid much attention to the latter, though.

All they thought about was how long they would have to wait until they could pilot their own Carmine mech!

Barrow smiled as he addressed the most pressing concerns of his fellow friends and like-minded mech fanatics.

"Quiet down! Be patient! While our off-world supplier has only been able to deliver 10 Carmine mechs to us, he has also supplied us with the mech templates and the original mech designs for all three versions of the Auto Heretic line. It is fully within our capability to derive a localized mech design based on the first-class version of the Auto Heretic mech template. The Carmine mechs that you see before you now are copies from a different mech design. While they can be used for reference value and other research purposes, we will not be able to reproduce their exact design due to differences in material supply!"

The Genser Federation was not only rich in valuable ore deposits, but also engaged in extensive trade and commerce.

Even so, it would be troublesome and unreasonably expensive to start producing mechs that required the NMRI and its partners to import uncommon exotics three star clusters away!

Most members of the NMRI understood the logistical constraints of trying to reproduce an unlocalized mech design.

"From today onwards, the NMRI will formally suspend all ongoing R&D projects." Barrow announced in his more officious posture that he regularly used it in his main job. "The existence of the Carmine System, the Auto Heretic mech line and the mech templates has given us all we need to start producing mechs that can enable all of us to pilot our own mechs. Since the Carmine System is leagues ahead of our own research projects, it is not worth the time and effort to try to expand the eligibility of users of neural interface technology."

Many researchers such as Idni Zenokon looked upset, but also resigned. They had already given up on the notion that their research could redeem neural interface technology.

However, there were also several other specialists who had become so invested in their research projects that they could not stand the thought that they had essentially wasted all of their years on an intellectual effort that ultimately contributed little to no value to

society!

Their self-worth was at stake!

The lead researcher of Project WR-13 raised the strongest objection.

That was great news to most of them! The volunteers worked for the NMRI out of love for mechs and a desire to contribute to the cause. Their incomes weren't entirely competitive, mostly because the institute did not wish to squander its donation money. For the NMRI to still go out of its way to supply the first batches of Auto Heretics to them was an incredibly valuable privilege, especially when many of them could foresee that demand would become so high that everyone else would have to wait much longer!

Barrow's expression suddenly turned serious.

"However, if you agree to receive one of our Carmine mechs and pilot it, you must also

be prepared to face hostility and retaliation from those who oppose what the Auto Heretic line stands for and how its availability may change our society. The MTA may decide to initiate a crackdown in as little as a day. We will never give up in our attempt to fulfill the cause, so we may become wanted criminals in a month. If you are not ready to sacrifice your life and wellbeing to open up mech piloting to every human, then you can submit your resignation letters after the conclusion of this assembly."

A tense atmosphere had fallen over the previously jubilant members of the NMRI. Many

of them had just begun to realize that their work at this institute had become a lot

graver than before!

They could suffer real adverse consequences if they continued to devote their work on a variation of a mech that contained multiple forbidden features!

The treasurer of the NMRI summed up their new reality if they chose to stay and fight.

"We are no longer engaged in a hopeless technological goose chase. We are turning from researchers who explored the limits of neural interfaces to fighters and agitators who must do everything in our power to help the Auto Heretic mechs spread across the Genser Federation and beyond, even if it costs us our life! Only then shall we be able to repay our gratitude towards Professor Larkinson for gifting us this miracle without expecting any remuneration!"

Though the members of the NMRI weren't soldiers, they gradually got caught up in the

excitement of the moment.

Compared to everything else in their lives, nothing mattered more than to pilot a mech themselves, and share this precious opportunity to others! Barrow abruptly raised his fist in a martial manner!

"The Carmine Revolution has begun!"