ABFMV Chapter 44 Part 1

Xu Linlang bought an empty storefront and decided this would be her base of operations on the virtual net.

Besides, repairing a mech required plenty of space. She couldn’t exactly haul Nan Zhu’s mech out into the street and work on it there.

Pulling out the toolbox she had just purchased, Xu Linlang said, “Go ahead and bring out your mech.”

Nan Zhu nodded and pressed the space button.

A pale green mech materialized in the open space of the hall.

Xu Linlang circled it. On the surface, there didn’t seem to be any damage—it looked like a mech that was almost brand new.

“Do you know where it’s malfunctioning?” she asked.

Nan Zhu shook his head. “No. I just know it won’t start at all, and the control core won’t respond.”

Xu Linlang activated a diagnostic scanner and let the system run a full check. The results came back: all systems normal.

Nan Zhu grew anxious at the result. “Sister, you have to believe me. My mech really is broken. I’m not lying.”

He moved toward the cockpit, clearly intending to climb in and prove it to her.

Xu Linlang waved him off, telling him not to bother.

Her brow furrowed as she looked down at the scanner. “The princess is arrogant, but she wouldn’t risk leaving evidence behind. She must’ve tampered with your mech so subtly that no damage shows up. And even if a mechanic wanted to go against her will, they wouldn’t be able to find what’s wrong to fix it.”

Nan Zhu’s eyes filled with tears. “So it really can’t be repaired?”

He slumped to the ground. “I can’t afford to buy a mech in the real world. I finally saved enough to get this one in the virtual net, and it’s been with me ever since. This is my very first mech…”

Xu Linlang walked closer, tilting her head back to look up at the machine’s frame.

She couldn’t explain why, but she felt a strange sense of resonance with it.

Almost without thinking, she placed her hand on the mech’s hull and slowly closed her eyes.

Instantly, the entire internal structure of the mech appeared in her mind—clear and orderly.

Startled, Xu Linlang pulled her hand back, and the sensation vanished.

It was just like one of the abilities in the game: mental power.

In the game, mental power was defined as an invisible force released by a creature’s brain. Not all living beings had it—only a few were born with it, and its strength varied greatly.

She never imagined the body’s original owner possessed mental power. Combined with her former S-class gene rating before she was crippled, just how gifted had she been?

Apparently, no one else knew she had this ability.

Xu Linlang pressed her hand against the mech again. Realizing she had mental power only made her resolve stronger.

She had to grow stronger.

She couldn’t waste the original owner’s talent, couldn’t let anyone look down on her again, and couldn’t let Rong Chen strike at the Xu family.

The moment her hand touched the mech, its entire structure unfolded once more in her mind, every detail sharp and precise.

Whenever she focused on a specific component, its full schematic surged up in her thoughts, breaking down into every last detail as if her mind were auto-rendering blueprints.

This was a nearly two-meter-tall mech with thousands of individual parts—yet right now, all of them were laid out in her head, flawless and complete.

For a moment, she felt like a master engineer.

The sensation was both uncanny and unreal.

“The problem is in the energy compartment,” she said at last. “The transmission lines were deliberately crossed, and they’re close to shorting. If it isn’t fixed soon, it’ll get much worse.”

Xu Linlang pulled out her tools and carefully reset the two crossed wires.

“Fortunately, this only happened recently, so it’s easy to correct. The mech wouldn’t start simply because the heat transmission wasn’t enough.”

She motioned for Nan Zhu to press the space button again. A moment later, the signal light on the mech’s chest flickered faintly.

It was the sign of a successful startup.

“That’s amazing!” Nan Zhu tipped his head back, staring at the mech, his face lit with excitement.

Then he spun around. “Sister, you’re incredible! You fixed my mech in no time at all—that’s just unbelievable!”

Xu Linlang packed away her tools. “It was just basic work. Why do you make it sound so extraordinary?”

Nan Zhu shook his head so hard that his white-furred ears wobbled along with it. “You’re the only one willing to fix my mech for me. To me, that makes you the best mechanic of all!”

Xu Linlang couldn’t help but laugh.

He really was too cute—even his words sounded so childlike.

“Sister, can we add each other as friends? That way it’ll be easier for me to find you next time.”

“Of course.”

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The first thing Qi Ye did after logging out of the virtual net was sit at his desk and resume studying Master C-Class Components in Just Three Days.

His fingers flipped rapidly through the pages. With his excellent memory, he skimmed line after line, committing the contents to mind in no time.

After all, two people needed a common ground to talk about.

And just earlier, Xu Linlang had praised him for knowing something about parts…

Even though he faced her under the identity of “X,” he still felt their distance narrowing.

He wanted to know more about her.

To do that, he had to understand what she liked, to share the things that interested her.

Before he realized it, he had reached the last page of the book—

“Thank you for your support. This concludes the first volume of Master C-Class Components in Just Three Days. To continue learning, please purchase the second volume.”

Qi Ye’s hand froze.

So this was only the first volume?

Meaning the knowledge of C-class mech components inside wasn’t complete?