"Hmm? How do you two know each other?"
Xu Xiaoyan looked at the two of them with a puzzled expression.
"There was a bit of an accident at the mech factory before. Thanks to Lin Xuan for helping me, it didn't cause any bigger losses."
The middle-aged man explained casually, then said to the two of them.
"Fasten your seatbelts, we're off."
"Okay!"
Xu Xiaoyan nodded, not delving into the question.
Boom!
The sports car roared, turning into a blue streak of light, and sped off towards the outskirts.
"Screech!"
The blue-purple sports car drifted to a stop, coming to a steady halt in front of the mech factory gate. A bright sign hung on the gate, bearing the words "Xu's Mech Group."
The Xu family was one of the most prominent families in Donghai City. Xu Xiaoyan's father was the financial chief of Donghai City, while Xu Hao, as the second son of the Xu family, chose to become a mech pilot, serving as the family's military pillar.
With the help of Xu Xiaoyan's father, Xu Hao's mecha business was among the top in the entire Tianhai Alliance.
"Let's go! I'll take you to the warehouse to choose a suitable mecha."
Xu Xiaoyan pulled Lin Xuan out of the car, hopping like a little rabbit towards the factory warehouse.
"Xiaoyan! You silly girl, how could you forget about your second uncle? Without me, do you have the authority?"
Xu Hao called out helplessly to Xu Xiaoyan. Why wasn't his little princess as considerate as before? Xu Xiaoyan used to be the most clingy to him; everything had changed.
"Who told you to be so slow! *Sigh*!"
Xu Xiaoyan turned back and made a face at Xu Hao, not thinking she had done anything wrong.
Xu Hao shook his head; daughters really are hard to keep once they grow up. Then he took out a glass marble, no more than two fingers thick, and pointed it at the blue sports car.
A beam of white light shot out from the glass sphere, landing directly on the sports car, which instantly transformed into a two-to-three-meter-tall, black-purple mecha. "
Isn't this the black mecha from before?"
Lin Xuan stared in surprise at the mecha before him. He hadn't expected this combat mecha to have a sports car form.
It felt like something out of Transformers!
As the white light shone, a strange halo surrounded the mecha, then directly absorbed it into the glass sphere, where a smaller black mecha slowly rotated inside.
"This is a soul tool specifically designed to house mechas! It allows mecha pilots to easily carry their mechas,"
Xu Hao explained, noticing Lin Xuan's confusion. A mecha is at least three or four meters tall; it's impossible for it to just swagger around with its pilot.
Some pilots also don't like leaving their favorite mechas outside, hence the existence of such products.
"Let's go!"
Xu Hao put away the glass sphere and led the two towards the factory.
Walking along the road, Lin Xuan and his group first passed through a workshop. Unlike the factories Lin Xuan remembered, it wasn't densely packed with workers; instead, there were only a few operators.
Inside, there were rows of large machines. Metal ores were brought in on conveyor belts, undergoing quenching and forging processes to become neat blocks of metal—it was a forging workshop.
"Here, you can forge metal up to a hundred times, but unfortunately, you can't forge it beyond a thousand times,"
Xu Hao explained, seeing Lin Xuan's curious gaze.
Lin Xuan nodded. In fact, it should be possible to forge it a thousand times, but because it couldn't be infused with spiritual energy, it wasn't recognized as a thousand-times forging.
"Truly high-level mechs require spiritual metal forged by a blacksmith himself to be manufactured."
"However, those high-level blacksmiths are all like lords, each one very difficult to please! They have a whole host of demands for each forging session."
Xu Hao, seemingly lost in thought, grumbled.
He'd begged and pleaded with everyone he knew, pulling strings to get his Black-level mecha, and only the core was Soul Forged; the rest was Spirit Forged.
But there was nothing he could do; the blacksmiths were the upstream suppliers in the mecha industry chain. Without their spirit metals, the mecha designers and manufacturers would be out of a job.
"Uh..."
Lin Xuan chuckled awkwardly. He was a blacksmith too, so he couldn't really comment.
After walking for about ten minutes, the three stopped in front of a massive warehouse.
Xu Hao stepped forward and, after a few maneuvers at the entrance, the warehouse door slowly rose.
The three of them entered, finding themselves in a gigantic warehouse tens of meters high, divided into numerous small rooms.
These rooms were separated by glass walls, each containing rows of mechas, their surfaces reflecting a cold, futuristic light.
Each mecha was nearly ten meters tall; walking through the aisles, Lin Xuan and his companions looked like dwarfs who had wandered into a land of giants—a truly awe-inspiring sight.
"Lin Xuan! Take a look and see which one you like, pick one yourself!"
Xu Hao pointed to the mechs in the warehouse and said generously to Lin Xuan.
"I'll take you to see them!"
Xu Xiaoyan volunteered and pulled Lin Xuan towards the innermost row.
This row of mechs was smaller than the ones in front, but the metallic luster on them was even better.
"Longyuan! Melee type mech, with double-layer armor, excellent defense, level yellow."
Lin Xuan walked to the nearest black and white mech, looked at the information on it, and couldn't help but look at Xu Xiaoyan in surprise.
"A yellow-level mech? You can choose this one?"
Lin Xuan turned back to Xu Xiaoyan and asked. A yellow-level mech would cost at least a million.
"Of course, I've already covered all the expenses!"
Xu Xiaoyan said proudly. This was an opportunity she had earned for Lin Xuan by spending a whole month's allowance.
This warehouse was full of high-quality mechs.
"But I don't know much about these mechs! You might have to choose one yourself."
Xu Xiaoyan suddenly stuck out her tongue and said, she wasn't very interested in them.
"It's fine! I'll take a look myself,"
Lin Xuan said nonchalantly. He figured it was free anyway, and using it as a luxury sports car wouldn't be a problem.
Walking past rows of mechs, Lin Xuan finally stopped in front of the third-to-last one.
"Hummingbird: Long-range sniper mech, equipped with the latest soul-guided laser weapon and iridescent coating, possessing extremely high mobility, Yellow Rank!"
The mech before him was entirely blue and white, and compared to the others, this Hummingbird was undoubtedly much smaller.
The six mechanical wings on its back resembled a peacock's tail. It had no other weapons on its body, only a soul-guided laser cannon on its right arm.
This was an assassin among mechs!
Compared to those bulky mechs, the Hummingbird's futuristic, streamlined body was exceptionally pleasing to the eye. Whether it was powerful or not was unknown, but it would definitely be very cool as a mount.
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