Vicious male counterpart isn’t competing anymore [Rebirth]

Chapter 133.2 Problem with the Pulse Magnetic Chip

Editor: Jodi

When Cong Yi returned, Yan Hao had already removed the outer metal plate of another instrument, so he walked over to help and together, they quickly removed the metal plate that was about half the height of a person and set it aside.

“Eldest Senior Brother, help me with the lighting.”

Without needing Yan Hao to say it, Cong Yi had already turned on the lights, illuminating the dark interior of the instrument, and following the light, Yan Hao scanned through numerous components as if searching for something. Then after about five minutes, he found his target and carefully removed a small component no larger than a thumb from beneath layers of wiring.

Once the component was removed, Yan Hao used his mental energy to scan it again to confirm that it was the correct one. Then he stood up. “Eldest Senior Brother, let’s go out.”

“You’ve found the problem?” Cong Yi asked for confirmation.

“En, this component is faulty.” Yan Hao confirmed.

The two of them left the lower compartment and headed straight for the maintenance room within the warship. The maintenance room was already stocked with various tools and basic materials, and there were even two hearty meals waiting for them.

“Little Junior Brother, after expending mental energy, you need to replenish your physical strength, so you have to eat something.” The meal had been prepared by Cong Yi while they were still in the lower compartment.

“Thank you, Eldest Senior Brother.” Yan Hao replied without hesitation, as with both his mental and physical energy depleted, his brain would be sluggish, so he knew that eating something was the best choice to stay alert.

However time was of the essence, so he couldn’t afford to eat leisurely. Hence he finished the food quickly in a methodical manner then started dismantling the component.

Once the component was dismantled and inspected, and he had confirmed the problem, he used the warship’s light brain in the maintenance room to contact Old Pang again, and the video call was accepted almost instantaneously, indicating that Old Pang had been waiting for this call. Old Pang just swept a glance over and immediately noticed the component in front of Yan Hao.

“This is the pulse magnetic chip?” Old Pang recognized it immediately.

“Master, the internals of this chip are burnt out. I just checked the internal systems of Z Star Planet but I couldn’t find a similar chip for replacement.” Yan Hao told him.

“No replacement? That’s also true, being able to go five years without maintenance, it would be strange if there was a replacement.” Thinking about what the Z Star Planet government had don, Old Pang was furious.

“I’ll contact the military department and see if we can get one from nearby planets.” Cong Yi quickly suggested.

“It won’t work.” Old Pang stopped him, “The pulse magnetic chip is the main control chip for the space cannon. Only planets equipped with the Tianhe One warship are eligible to purchase it, and in your star system, only your planet has the Tianhe One warship.”

The Tianhe One warship was a star level weapon, expensive to build and not suitable for mass production. Therefore, once a planet in a vicinity had one, other planets within a twelve-hour flight radius wouldn’t equip themselves with one, as neighboring planets with warships could quickly rush to provide support in case of a spatial black hole emergence. As for Planets further away, even if they had the Tianhe One warship, they wouldn’t be able to arrive in time.

Thinking about this, Old Pang’s expression darkened considerably. The fact that Z Star Planet actually hadn’t conducted regular inspections and maintenance on such a strategic weapon for five years was shocking. The Federation was also something else– they should have enforced mandatory periodic checks for such strategic weapons. However, complaining about this at this moment was futile. His immediate priority was to repair the warship as quickly as possible.

“Xiao Hao, I’m sending you the blueprints for the pulse magnetic chip, then I’ll teach you how to make it.” Fortunately, all these designs had been made and created by him, so he quickly located the relevant blueprints and sent them to Yan Hao.

Yan Hao opened the file, revealing a circuit board covered with an intricate network of lines spanning a whopping thirty layers. Just looking at these lines made one’s scalp tingle. What’s more, this was an enlarged version of the circuit diagram; in reality, these lines had been shrunk hundreds of times when they had been etched onto the chip, hence precision instruments were necessary for its production. Luckily, Z Star Planet had them. Otherwise, they would really be only able to wait for death.

“Take a look at it first, then I’ll explain.” Old Pang said.

“Okay.” Yan Hao nodded, then began to concentrate, examining the internal structure and circuit layout of the chip.

Cong Yi who was standing beside him also wanted to help, thinking that two people working on it might be faster. He joined Yan Hao in studying the design. However while he was still on the tenth layer, Yan Hao had already completed the entire examination.

“Master, I’m done reviewing it.”

“Good, now I’ll start explaining it to you layer by layer, but because there isn’t much time, I’ll try to be as concise as possible during the explanation, so if there’s anything you don’t understand, feel free to interrupt me.” If it had been during normal times, Old Pang would have definitely given him at least a week to understand these circuit diagrams, and he might have even had him redraw the thirty-layer circuit diagram himself. However, there was no time for that now, so he had to resort to this crash course method.

Then, the master and disciple began, one explaining and the other learning. At first, Cong Yi could follow along, however Old Pang’s explanations were so simplified that he quickly glossed over many parts that he didn’t understand, causing him to manage to barely grasp the content up to the third layer, however beyond that, it became increasingly challenging.

If even he was struggling this much, then could his little junior brother understand this? Subconsciously, he turned to look at Yan Hao, only to find him with his head lowered, focused on the circuit board, with no expression on his face.

It couldn’t be that he was confused right? Just as Cong Yi was thinking this way, he heard Yan Hao interrupt Old Pang, “Master, I didn’t quite understand the 18th subsection of the sixth layer.”

He was already on the sixth layer!

“Alright.”

Just as Cong Yi was surprised by Yan Hao’s progress, Old Pang began explaining again, this time in much more detail, but with all the previous content he had missed, Cong Yi now found it even harder to follow.

No matter how it was said, he was at least a level eight mech builder, and his Master was at least on par with Old Pang, so how was it that he couldn’t understand what Old Pang was teaching?

This realization was a blow to his confidence, however he was soon blown flat. But whatever, as long as they could save Z Star Planet, even if he became a retard he would be happy.

After about an hour, Old Pang finished explaining the entire chip’s circuitry.

“Master, I’m going to start making the chip.” Yan Hao said immediately.

Old Pang nodded: “I’ll be in the lab all day today, so you can come to me anytime.”

“En.” Not wasting any more time, Yan Hao turned to the workbench on the side, “Eldest Senior Brother, come and help me.”

Cong Yi followed hurriedly.

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