System: My Doomsday Train-Chapter 578 - 291: Gray-grade components._2
"And the entire remanufacturing process consumed 645 Murphy Stones. Even for a Mechanical Civilization, that’s a significant expense. The Mechanical Civilization develops a variety of accessories simultaneously, so it’s impossible to invest all resources into one component."
"..."
Chen Mang sat in the chair, lost in thought for a long while before speaking softly, "I basically understand. So, the supermodel effect of the ’Accessory Original Image’ is completely random, and if you’re not satisfied with the random supermodel effect, you can reforge the Accessory Original Image to rescan the supermodel effect."
"And the greatest cost inside."
"Is it the Murphy Stones spent on detecting the supermodel effect of the Accessory Original Image?"
"Yes."
"If I can upgrade indefinitely, can I ignore this part of the cost?"
"That’s the case."
"Then theoretically, I can randomly achieve a supermodel effect that perfectly matches the needs of the Fixed Star, as long as the number of attempts is sufficient."
"That’s right."
"Even a firepower weapon with seven-colored accessories, as long as I have enough attempts, I could guarantee its supermodel effect from Level 5 to Level 500 would cut ammunition consumption in half."
"That’s possible." Ai continued, "But the prerequisite is... we need a research team like the Mechanical Civilization, a large number of scientific chips, high computational power, rare materials, and... a vast amount of experimental data, etc. It’s quite a troublesome matter."
"Troublesome?"
Chen Mang suddenly laughed.
"About the research team, isn’t the leader on the island a university professor?"
"Scientific chips, isn’t your buddy Xiaoyi exactly that?"
"Your computational power should be enough, right? If not, we can upgrade it to Level 500."
"Rare materials can be created through the ’Trait Material Research Line,’ can’t they?"
"Vast experimental data, this can be obtained from the Mechanical Civilization Ruins."
"Although there are difficulties, there are solutions."
"Of course not..."
Ai quietly said, "Relying on a university professor from a less advanced civilization for the research team is a bit far-fetched, and what if they’re a philosophy professor? I mentioned a large number of scientific chips, but the Fixed Star Train currently only has one scientific chip."
"For my computational power, if I had to manage these things, Level 100 indeed seems insufficient."
"The Trait Material Research Line can create rare materials, but material samples are needed."
"This is very difficult to achieve."
"But there’s always a chance."
After a moment of contemplation, Chen Mang spoke up, "There will be opportunities to achieve this in the future. I’ll leave this matter for you to take the lead on. Start by selecting some researchers and training them based on the basic information in the database first."
"Go see how much iron ore it takes to create 10,000 ’Receiving Devices.’"
"At most 100." Ai explained, "The ’Cosmic Receiver’ can only have up to 100 receiving devices. Beyond that, you’d need to create an additional ’Conversion Device’ in the Cosmic Receiver."
"Creating the conversion device is difficult for now."
"Then create 90 first. Also, did you mention what gray-grade components are?"
"Not finished yet." Ai continued, "Among all graded components, there’s an extremely special component called ’Gray-Grade Component,’ in other words, it’s also a semi-failure product, having some effects, but during the manufacturing blueprint process, unexpected unknown errors occurred."
"Causing it to be un-upgradeable and unable to obtain a supermodel effect."
"Is that so?"
"Yes, normally, it’s like this. Train Captain, yours is an exception. Gray-grade components often have decent effects even at Level 1; however, they are extremely rare as most gray-grade components would be re-melted and remade."
"Only a few gray-grade components with particularly valuable raw materials, which can have strong effects even at Level 1, are kept on the original image and replicated for market release."
"Gray-grade components are strong at Level 1 not because they are innately so."
"But because only those strong at Level 1 gray-grade components remain. The rest are all remelted and remade."
"Understood."
Chen Mang exhaled lightly, lit a cigarette, leaned back in the chair, and looked at the stream of information across the control panel’s screen. Perhaps due to the exhaustion of these days, he felt his eyelids growing heavier, with a drowsy feeling that wanted to pull him to sleep.
Just like that, lying on the chair.
His whole body sunk into the chair back.
This chair was not like the ones in front of the dining table, but more akin to a space chair in a spaceship, semi-encased, it effectively protected the Train Captain even during collisions.
In a daze.
He fell asleep, dreaming not of the Accessory Original Images, but vaguely remembering his first love at 16.
That...
Was truly a long-forgotten feeling.
At that time, he truly knew how to love someone. Relationships after college were actually quite sad; two people met in society and came together, even if they got along quite harmoniously, they lost the ability to love someone wholeheartedly.
Both had someone in their hearts whom they once loved with 100% of their effort.
Just going through the motions.
Close enough is good enough.
Fang walked up inside the train cabin, carefully picked up a blanket, covered Chen Mang, and quietly retreated once more.
...
"Crafty woman..."
In the "Mecha Research and Development Center" of Coach No. 2, Ai couldn’t help but sigh deeply, observing surveillance of Fang’s interactions with everyone these days but failed to find any evidence that someone was giving Fang any instructions or advice.
