At the door of the room,
Fides was pacing back and forth at the door. Li Feng's room at this moment was more terrifying than ten thousand Greater Daemons of Chaos! Her hand rested on the doorknob, but she quickly withdrew it.
If she went in so suddenly, what if Li Feng was sleeping without wearing anything... Wouldn't she be a pervert?
Thinking this, her hand moved into a knocking position, but she withdrew it again... What if he got angry and didn't open the door? Then she would be in a disadvantageous position! It would look like she was throwing herself at him!
However, she had been doing the above for ten minutes outside Li Feng's room... Finally, she made up her mind to open the door directly and then turn on the light, making it seem like she was a supervisor checking the room.
Yes! Just like that!
Saying this, Fides opened the door with a speed that even Space Marines couldn't discern, and click! She turned on the room light... But, the room was empty... "Where is he? Did he run away?"
Fides immediately looked at her wristband. It showed that Li Feng was still on the ship, specifically at the Mechanicum Workshop!
Damn it, I specifically didn't let him stay in prison and arranged a guest room for him! How dare he betray my good intentions!
What is he doing at the Mechanicum Workshop! Suspicious! Very suspicious! She smelled betrayal and corruption. So she immediately headed towards the Mechanicum Workshop. She wanted to see what this man was doing, not sleeping in the middle of the night, but running to the Mechanicum Workshop?
...At the entrance of the Mechanicum Workshop,
Walking into the workshop gate,
Fides walked a few steps and found that the servitor was still working, but the Oil Man from before was long gone. Soon, she heard human voices and mechanical sounds, as well as the sounds of electric welding and tools colliding, coming from the garage further inside.
Fides tiptoed over and peeked her head into the garage. Li Feng was operating a vehicle crane, lifting a Nun's Rhino armored vehicle, while the Oil Man was installing a multi-layer composite plate on the front, consisting of armored steel, ceramic, and polymer fiber layers. This composite plate had a significant angle of inclination.
Then Fides saw the Oil Man, under Li Feng's command, wrapping explosive plates in sheet metal and welding them into small boxes. Then, these small boxes were connected together and welded to the side of the vehicle body using spot welding instead of fish-scale welding... They want to detonate our war vehicle! Fides immediately rushed forward, but a hand pulled her back from behind. She turned around and saw Grand Sister Margaret, dressed in her robes.
"Look at you, always so impetuous."
Sister Margaret had been watching for a while. What shocked her most was not the Adeptus Mechanicus's actions, but that Li Feng could actually command the Oil Man to obey him, and modify what they considered sacred machinery.
Because of the Adeptus Mechanicus's doctrines, they were rigid and conservative. The Adeptus Mechanicus believed that any modification to machinery would displease the machine spirit. Even for the war vehicles under the Adepta Sororitas's name, the Nuns' maximum modification authority was to put some decals symbolizing the Imperium and the Ecclesiarchy on them, and nothing more.
At this moment, Li Feng, wearing a welding mask, was instructing the Oil Man like an experienced master:
"Use fish-scale welding on top, and make it dense, so things don't fall off when the vehicle is moving."
"Yes, Teacher Li."
Li Feng took off his mask, wanting to catch his breath. He turned around and saw Fides and Sister Margaret at the garage entrance.
The two also noticed Li Feng's gaze. Sister Margaret walked over generously. Seeing the Grand Nun walk over, Fides also felt no need to be hesitant and followed closely behind.
"Lieutenant Li Feng, I didn't expect you to be able to persuade the Adeptus Mechanicus to privately modify our combat armor. Do you know what your actions mean?"
Li Feng looked confused at this moment and quickly said, "Ah! I don't know! That Ma Yinglong told me it was okay to modify it."
As soon as Li Feng finished speaking, Ma Yinglong, who was on the roof, welding a shield (the same model as the US military in Baghdad) for the heavy bolter machine gun on the Rhino armored vehicle's roof hatch, said:
"Grand Nun, according to the 'Treaty of Olympus' signed by the Emperor and the Martian General ten thousand years ago, the Adeptus Mechanicus has the right to improve and modify the Imperium's weaponry."
Hearing Ma Yinglong's words, Fides asked in surprise, "He just ripped off your 'sprinkler' a few hours ago, and now you're speaking up for him. What benefit did you receive from him?"
Ma Yinglong, at this moment, devoutly knelt on one knee, speaking to the Adeptus Mechanicus relic on the wall:
"omnissiah above, I have gained a good mentor today... What is the loss of a sprinkler worth?"
Aside from the initial 'first impression' being a bit poor, Little Ma was indeed a good comrade. Compared to other Oil Men who only knew archaeology and conservatism and were not enterprising, he was more like Cawl, willing to delve into research and development.
Sister Margaret was now examining the modified Rhino armored vehicle. She slowly walked to its side, stroking the "add-on armor" on the side of the armor, which looked like brick walls, and the multi-layer composite armor on the front... "Lieutenant Li Feng, besides the shields you prepared for my Nuns, which I can see are somewhat useful... Would you mind explaining the others to me?"
Then Li Feng began to explain that the front, with its angled, multi-material composite armor, formed from various materials pressed together in this world, had higher defensive power than ordinary pure armored steel. The explosive reactive armor on the side of the vehicle body could slightly withstand the impact of large-caliber bolters, but it was powerless against melta and plasma guns.
Li Feng discovered that the structure of a bolter round was actually a large-caliber warhead containing propellant and a chemical charge. When the bullet hit the target, the warhead exploded, and the chemical charge within the warhead formed a high-temperature metal jet that penetrated the enemy's armor.
The structure of the bolter round was equivalent to shrinking the armor-piercing round from Li Feng's world into a bullet version... When the bolter round hit the explosive reactive armor, the inert explosive inside the reactive armor would be directly detonated by the metal jet, neutralizing the bolter round's metal jet.
The key is! The cost of this modification is very low! The cost of Li Feng's modified reactive armor and composite armor was too low compared to ceramite armor and force fields!
Hearing Li Feng's design modification, Margaret and Fides were both stunned. Could it really be done this way? Margaret turned to look at Fides, her gaze as if to say:
"This man's value to the Adepta Sororitas will be infinite. Take him! If you don't make a move soon, don't blame this old woman for being young at heart and taking up the spear herself..."
At this moment, Ma Yinglong completed the final weld. He jumped down from the roof: "Just one last step."
And as soon as he finished speaking, Margaret, Fides, and Ma Yinglong all assumed a prayer posture. Ma Yinglong, as a Tech-Priest, lit incense and began to chant the Adeptus Mechanicus scriptures around the war vehicle... While Margaret and Fides were... "Holy Emperor, may you grant our war vehicle the ability to crush all enemies, just as you..."
Li Feng, at this moment, seemed a bit out of place. To blend in, he also clasped his hands together and prayed inwardly:
"Rheinmetall, Uralmash, Inner Mongolia First Machinery Plant, General Dynamics... and the mother of BVVD above, please bless this vehicle, I hope you will 'never shortchange' it..."